Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
Krui District
Creation Place: 
Lampung
Creation Place: 
Marang
Creation Place: 
Sumatra
Title: 
Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia
Date: 
1900-Collected 1974
Materials: 
handwoven
Materials: 
supplementary weft
Materials: 
handspun cotton
Materials: 
fabric
Dimensions: 
38.1 cm by 36.7 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X76.1369
Subject: 
- bird human bands hornbill - handwoven supplementary weft handspun cotton fabric
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Content/Description
Notes: 
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: The birds are similar to those tentatively identified as representative of the hornbill family (Bucerotidae), distinguished in the "tampan" by the angular scrolls emerging from the sides of the animal, the triangular protuberance between the legs, and the tail curved over the back [Gittinger 1972:167-168]. Similar representations can be traces through a broad geographical region, indicating that some designs were not regional specialties but known through the entire area [Gittinger 1972:96]. Gittinger suggests that originally the birds probably rode in multiple ship structures [Gittinger 1972:Plate 2] and that the vertical bars on the selvage borders and incomplete bar in upper left and right corners of grid suggest a simplification of a series of ships [similar to Gittinger 1972:Plate 1]. In another example [Gittinger 1972:Plate 8], a simple box or grid replaces these ships [Gittinger 1972:97]. See entry for X76.1365 for background information on "tampan" and "pelepai" textiles from Lampung, Sumatra.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes: 
Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1972. A STUDY OF THE SHIP CLOTHS OF SUMATRA: THEIR DESIGN AND USAGE. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
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