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 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 1901–2000
Medium: Cotton and silk, warp-faced plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton in laidwork and couching
Dimensions: 107.6 × 131.3 cm (42 3/8 × 51 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2005.460

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. 10.

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. 10.

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

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