Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; sarong. Indonesia
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creation Place:
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Flores Island
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Creation Place:
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Indonesia
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Creation Place:
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Lio
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Title:
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Textile; sarong. Indonesia
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Date:
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1940-1950
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Materials:
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handwoven
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Materials:
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warp ikat
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Materials:
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cotton
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Materials:
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fabric
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Dimensions:
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134.0 cm by 164.0 cm
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Current Location:
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
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Address:
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Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
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Object ID:
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UCLA FMCH X81.1502
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Subject:
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- lavo pundi
- handwoven warp ikat cotton fabric
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Heading:
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Content/Description
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Notes:
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REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: Consists of four panels sewn together warpwise. Would once have been sewn closed together at the selvages to form a tube; when worn, the warp would then run horizontally across the body of the wearer. Florinese woman traditionally wore a single garment, wrapped high over the breasts; this accounts for the long length of the sarong. On this cloth, the seam has been opened and the edges hemmed. Commercial(?) cotton thread. Probably natural dyes; indigo for blue, Morinda citrifolia for red-brown, and overdyeing of these two dyes for black. Thread count: warp 88 e.p.i.; weft 26 e.p.i. From the Lio domain in east central Flores, centered around the town of Wolowaru. According to the original accession information from Kent Watters: Mid 20th Century (circa 1940-1950); "Lavo Pundi" is the name of the major motif, which runs in bands vertically (weftwise) as the sarong is worn. For a discussion of Lio sarongs, see Watters 1977:88. For an illustration of a cloth with similar configuration but a slightly different motif, see Gittinger 1979:171. For a general discussion of the distribution of Florinese weaving styles, see Maxwell 1980:141-154.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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Notes:
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Roy Hamilton (ed.), GIFT OF THE COTTON MAIDEN: TEXTILES OF FLORES AND THE SOLOR ISLANDS, Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1994, p. 221.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/ft9p30092m
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