Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Batak
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Creation Place:
North Sumatra
Title:
Textile; ulos; paromba sadum?; child carrier. Indonesia
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
supplementary weft
Materials:
beaded
Materials:
cotton
Materials:
glass beads
Materials:
wool?
Materials:
metal bells
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
215.0 cm by 63.5 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X70.112
Subject:
- inscription
- handwoven supplementary weft beaded cotton glass beads wool? metal
bells fabric
Heading:
Content/Description
Notes:
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: Single panel of cloth, decorated with supplementary weft, beadwork, metal bells, and a band near each end executed in a wrapped warp tapestry technique. This cloth very closely matches the description of a "parompa sadum" given in Gittinger 1975:28. The cloth described is from the Angkola Batak people. "Parompa" are the class of "ulos" used as a carrying sling for children. This cloth contains an inscription woven in supplementary weft. Rodgers-Siregar [1980:97] describes such inscriptions in the textiles of the Angkola Batak in the Sipirok area of the Tapanuli Highlands.
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Rodgers-Siregar, Susan. 1980. "Blessing shawls: the social meaning of Sipirok Batak ulos". In INDONESIAN TEXTILES, Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles 1979 Proceedings, Mattiebelle Gittinger (ed.), The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft767nb41 3

Textile; ulos; paromba sadum?; child carrier. Indonesia