Ceremonial Cloth (Pua sungkit)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Iban

Title

Ceremonial Cloth (Pua sungkit)

Place

Indonesia (Object made in)

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Made 1801–1900

Medium

Three panels joined: Side panels: cotton, stripes of plain weave and of warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave; Center panel: cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading and twining wefts and supplementary wrapping elements

Dimensions

218.4 × 104.8 cm (86 × 41 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection

Reference Number

2002.947

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