Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; iket kepala; man's headcloth. 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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Indonesia
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Creation Place:
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Jambi
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Creation Place:
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Sumatra
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Title:
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Textile; iket kepala; man's headcloth. Indonesia
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Date:
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1900
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Materials:
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batik
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Materials:
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machine woven
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Materials:
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cotton
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Dimensions:
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104.8 cm by 104.8 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 X83.868
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Subject:
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- geometric floral zoomorphic bird border
- batik machine woven cotton
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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: 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.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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Notes:
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Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1979. SPLENDID SYMBOLS: TEXTILES AND TRADITIONS IN INDONESIA. Washington D.C., The Textile Museum.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/ft9580099z
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