Textile

Museum number:
5-15138
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015138
Accession number:
Acc.4413
Description:
Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Gold zigzags on blue ground. Brown diamond with plants and insects in the center. Garuda birds in all 4 corners. Brown wavy edge border. Imprint on selvedge: "GUARANTEED DUTCH JAVA PRINT" and "VERITABLE JAVA HOLLANDAIS." Length 1.8 meters, width 1.2 meters. From Niger, made in Java. Techniques: printed cotton, gold probably applied using stencil, cut from a bolt, probably used as a skirt, fabric made in Java.
Donor:
Bruce Max Feldman and Kate Delos
Collection place:
Niger
Verbatim coll. place:
Niger (made in Java)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15138, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Gold zigzags on blue ground. Brown diamond with plants and insects in the center. Garuda birds in all 4 corners. Brown wavy edge border. Imprint on selvedge: "GUARANTEED DUTCH JAVA PRINT" and "VERITABLE JAVA HOLLANDAIS." Length 1.8 meters, width 1.2 meters. From Niger, made in Java. Techniques: printed cotton, gold probably applied using stencil, cut from a bolt, probably used as a skirt, fabric made in Java.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15138, described as Yardgoods. Printed cotton, batik design. Gold zigzags on blue ground. Brown diamond with plants and insects in the center. Garuda birds in all 4 corners. Brown wavy edge border. Imprint on selvedge: "GUARANTEED DUTCH JAVA PRINT" and "VERITABLE JAVA HOLLANDAIS." Length 1.8 meters, width 1.2 meters. From Niger, made in Java. Techniques: printed cotton, gold probably applied using stencil, cut from a bolt, probably used as a skirt, fabric made in Java.

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