Ceremonial Cloth (pua kumbu)

Textiles

1901/50

Iban people
Indonesia, Borneo, Sarawak, Saribas River area (?)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Iban
Title: Ceremonial Cloth (pua kumbu)
Place: Indonesia (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 1901–1950
Medium: cotton, stripes of plain weave and of wapr resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave; supplementary weft twining; cut warps
Dimensions: 232 × 119 cm (91 3/8 × 46 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2005.459

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): 100, cat. 58.

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. 58.

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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