Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Borneo
Creation Place:
Iban
Creation Place:
Malaysia
Creation Place:
Sarawak
Title:
Textile; baju; kalambi; jacket. Malaysia
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
warp ikat
Materials:
tapestry
Materials:
sewn
Materials:
cotton
Dimensions:
150.5 cm by 107.9 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X81.1488
Subject:
- handwoven warp ikat tapestry sewn 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: Made from five pieces of cloth sewn together; two front panels, one back panel, two sleaves. "Baju" (Malay = "blouse") is the term given in the accession material; "Kalambi" is the usual term for Iban jackets. The longer than usual length of this jacket and the presence of the sleaves is said to indicate a woman's jacket [Palmieri & Ferentinos 1979:78; Kahn Majlis 1984:plate 660]. However, an interesting photo of a man wearing a similar jacket appears in Furness 1902:78. Handspun(?) and commercial cotton thread. Natural and commercial dyes. Back panels hemmed with an additional strip of commercial cotton cloth. The badge on the back and the hem band are woven in tapestry technique [see Gittinger 1979:223] using commercial yarns.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Palmieri, Michael and Fatima Ferentinos. 1979. "The Iban textiles of Sarawak". In THREADS OF TRADITION, Joseph Fischer (ed.), Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft7m3nb4h z

Textile; baju; kalambi; jacket. Malaysia