Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. 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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Kotajawa
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Creation Place:
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Lampung
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Creation Place:
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Pedada
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Creation Place:
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Sumatra
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Title:
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Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia
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Date:
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1900-Collected 1974
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Materials:
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handwoven
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Materials:
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supplementary weft
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Materials:
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handspun cotton
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Materials:
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fabric
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Dimensions:
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46.3 cm by 45.1 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 X76.1386
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Subject:
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- tree bird animal human ship scrolls triangles
- handwoven supplementary weft handspun cotton fabric
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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: This composition, a tree riding in a ship with limbs supporting birds, animals and human figures, has a broad distribution. Gittinger illustrates similar examples from the South [Gittinger 1972:Plates 9-12] and Krui Coasts [Gittinger 1972:Plate 13] and refers to examples similar to Plate 10 found in Liwa and the Semangka Bay "kampung" (="village") Putih Doh [Gittinger 1972:98]. In a generalized Indonesian context, the tree motif may be compared to a sacred tree planted on a stone terrace in the center of a village or, more broadly, as cosmic tree symbolism [Gittinger 1972:155]. More specifically, the large trees with the single ship probably represent the "kayu ara", the many limbed pole hung with gifts and ceremonially plundered at rites of passage ceremonies [Gittinger 1972:156-157]. The animals depicted on the tree limbs have not been identified. Vaguely similar animals with raised backs can be seen in Plate 85 [Gittinger 1972:172]. See entry for X76.1365 for background information on "tampan" and "pelepai" textiles from Lampung, Sumatra.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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Notes:
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Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1972. A STUDY OF THE SHIP CLOTHS OF SUMATRA: THEIR DESIGN AND USAGE. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/ft4v19n9h0
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