Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Atoni
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Creation Place:
South Central Timor
Creation Place:
West Timor
Title:
Textile; selimut; man's hip or shoulder wrap. Indonesia
Date:
Collected 1930s
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
supplementary weft
Materials:
float weave
Materials:
handspun cotton
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
195.5 cm by 132.0 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X74.369
Subject:
- diamond geometric sekong
- handwoven supplementary weft float weave handspun cotton fabric
Heading:
Content/Description
Notes:
REMARKS BY ANNE & JOHN SUMMERFIELD (1990): Close examination of the center panel of this textile suggests that the supplementary motifs were not embroidered in the sense that they were needled in after the cloth was removed from the loom. These motifs, inspected from the back of the textile, consist of threads all parallel to the weft. No threads are pierced as they would have been if the motifs were embroidered with a needle. These motifs may have been made with small bobbins of different colored threads or needled in during the weaving as supplementary weft.
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Schulte Nordholt, H. G. 1971. THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE ATONI OF TIMOR. The Hague, Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft096n99k t

Textile; selimut; man's hip or shoulder wrap. Indonesia