Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Creation Place:
Sumatra
Title:
Textile; palepai; ship cloth. Indonesia
Materials:
fabric
Materials:
hand woven
Materials:
cotton
Materials:
vegetable dye
Dimensions:
253.0 cm by 53.5 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X88.225
Subject:
- ship house
- fabric hand woven cotton vegetable dye
Heading:
Content/Description
Notes:
This is an example of a class of palepai (ship cloth) design that shows a characteristic "single large blue ship with projecting trifurcated bow and stern" as its unique feature. Kahlenberg, Mary. TEXTILE TRADITIONS OF INDONESIA. L.A. County Museum of Art. 1977. From Gittinger's article, Sumatra, page 29.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft4n39n96 1

Textile; palepai; ship cloth. Indonesia