Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)

Textiles

20th century

Abung people
Indonesia, South Sumatra, Lampung area

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Abung
Title: Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)
Place: Indonesia (Object made in)
Date: Made 1901–2000
Medium: Cotton, warp-faced plain weave, embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton in laidwork and couching; embellished with sequins
Dimensions: 119.4 × 110.5 cm (47 × 43 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2005.458

Brigette Khan Majlis, The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E. M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 33, 2 (2007): 38-39, cat. 9.

Art Institute of Chicago, Galleries 108-109, The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E. M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 1, 2007–Mar. 2, 2008, cat. 9.

E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by 2005 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles, incoming receipt RX24972, dated Dec. 14, 2005, in curatorial file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005.

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