Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Bali
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Title:
Textile; kamben cerik; woman's breast wrap. Indonesia
Date:
Collected 1930s
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
cotton
Materials:
metallic thread
Materials:
synthetic fiber
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
204.5 cm by 45.7 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X74.306
Subject:
- handwoven cotton metallic thread synthetic fiber 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: Length of cloth with gauze-like weave. Vernacular name "kamben cerik" [spelling modernized] taken from Covarrubias 1937:197, where he describes "open-work scarfs worn by the woman around the breasts for feasts". Similar cloths are now worn tightly wrapped around the torso as part of a woman's dance costume or even as part of everyday dress by older, more conservative woman.
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Covarrubias, Miguel. 1937. ISLAND OF BALI. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft8f59p22 z

Textile; kamben cerik; woman's breast wrap. Indonesia