Sarong

Museum number:
18-313
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180000313
Accession number:
Acc.2028
Description:
Woman's dark red cotton sarong; eight-leaved rosette motif in gilt paper (Songket) wrapped around thread core. Floating weft technique center field called badan, border called Kepala 32 x 81 inches.
Donor:
James P. Heath and Ruth Mary Heath
Collection place:
Sumatra, Indonesia
Collector:
James P. Heath and Ruth Mary Heath
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarongs
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sarong, accession number 18-313, described as Woman's dark red cotton sarong; eight-leaved rosette motif in gilt paper (Songket) wrapped around thread core. Floating weft technique center field called badan, border called Kepala 32 x 81 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sarong, accession number 18-313, described as Woman's dark red cotton sarong; eight-leaved rosette motif in gilt paper (Songket) wrapped around thread core. Floating weft technique center field called badan, border called Kepala 32 x 81 inches.

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