Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Creation Place:
Jambi
Creation Place:
Sumatra
Title:
Textile; iket kepala; man's headcloth. Indonesia
Date:
1900
Materials:
batik
Materials:
machine woven
Materials:
cotton
Dimensions:
104.8 cm by 104.8 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X83.868
Subject:
- geometric floral zoomorphic bird border
- batik machine woven cotton
Heading:
Content/Description
Notes:
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: According to the accession sheet, identified in accompanying notes as "Man's headcloth. Djambu [sic.], Sumatra. Early 20th Century. Geometric and bird design." "Iket kepala" or man's headcloth. Presumably from Jambi [formerly spelled "Djambi"] Province in east coast Sumatra. There is no particular stylistic evidence to support the assignment of provenience to Jambi rather than to Java, but a local batik industry did spring up in Jambi under the influence of Javanese immigrants in the 2nd half of the 19th Century [Gittinger 1979:110]. The Jambi assignation presumably refects the primary and acurate notes of Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, who collected this cloth. For a brief discription of the Jambi batik tradition, see Gittinger 1979: 104-105 & 110.
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1979. SPLENDID SYMBOLS: TEXTILES AND TRADITIONS IN INDONESIA. Washington D.C., The Textile Museum.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft9580099 z

Textile; iket kepala; man's headcloth. Indonesia