Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Bali
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Title:
Textile; selendang?. Indonesia
Date:
Collected 1930s
Materials:
hand woven
Materials:
cotton
Materials:
metallic thread
Materials:
kulit kayu
Dimensions:
202.0 cm by 61.5 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X74.340
Subject:
- hand woven cotton metallic thread kulit kayu
Heading:
Content/Description
Notes:
REMARKS BY MARY JANE LELAND (1990): This piece is "ordinary" only in the sense that it was probably for everyday use. My appraisal is that it is a piece of very traditional weaving, probably a selendang. White yarns are very finely spun, but still handspun, possibly bleached. The white yarn appears to be the same as the red. These cloths are sometimes referred to as "Bali aga" or cloths that get used up (in everyday use). Such cloth appears to be "unusual" to us today because it was not collected and published in the literature as were the "spectaculars."
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft000002z v

Textile; selendang?. Indonesia