Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain songket lepus)

Textiles

Malay
Indonesia, South Sumatra, Lampung

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain songket lepus)
Place: Indonesia (Object made in)
Medium: Two widths joined: silk and silvered-and gilt-metal threads wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts
Dimensions: 233.8 × 119.8 cm (92 1/4 × 47 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2002.983
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E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles inventory EMB-1006, incoming receipt RX23940, dated Jan. 22, 2003, in curatorial file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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