Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Bali
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Title:
Textile; bebali?; token textile for ritual use. Indonesia
Date:
Collected 1930s
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
weft ikat
Materials:
cotton
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
156.2 cm by 43.8 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X74.304
Subject:
- handwoven weft ikat cotton 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: This cloth is similar to the description of "bebali" given in Gittinger 1979:144-146, especially in the loose weave and in the use of pastel weft ikat to create stripes that are visually oriented in the warp direction. "Bebali" are token textiles for ritual use, but little more is known about them. However, the "bebali" illustrated in Gittinger [1978:plate 107] is much more precisely made than X74.309. Therefore, it is not clear whether X74.309 is a genuine "bebali" or a similarly styled secular cloth that may have been used as an article of clothing. Its gauze-like weave is similar to the "kamben cerik" cloths used as breast wrap cloths [Covarrubias 1937:197].
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Covarrubias, Migual. 1937. ISLAND OF BALI. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1979. SPLENDID SYMBOLS: TEXTILES AND TRADITIONS IN INDONESIA. Washington D.C., The Textile Museum.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft4d5nb33 1

Textile; bebali?; token textile for ritual use. Indonesia