Ceremonial Cloth (Ragidup pinnusuhan)

Textiles

1915

Indonesia, Sumatra, Batak

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Ceremonial Cloth (Ragidup pinnusuhan)
Place: Sumatra (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1915
Medium: Five panels joined: side panels: cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and wefts; center length: cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; and warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave; end borders: replied main warp fringe; center of center length: cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat) warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave
Inscriptions: Inscription: Greetings to the person who wears this 10 January 1915
Dimensions: 217 × 133.2 cm (85 1/2 × 52 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2002.950

E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles inventory EMB-3894-T, incoming receipt RX23940, dated Jan. 22, 2003, in curatorial file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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