Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Creation Place:
Krui District
Creation Place:
Lampung
Creation Place:
Pulau Pisang
Creation Place:
Sumatra
Title:
Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia
Date:
1900-Collected 1974
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
supplementary weft
Materials:
handspun cotton
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
39.3 cm by 34.8 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X76.1411
Subject:
- human animal tail rosette geometric scroll zig zag bands
- handwoven supplementary weft handspun cotton fabric
Heading:
Content/Description
Notes:
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: This "tampan" is similar to Gittinger 1972:Plate 38, whose weaver, according to Gittinger, used the human figure and two confronting animals found in a small section of another cloth. Krui weavers commonly selected segments from larger compositions for depiction, thus making Krui cloths incomprehensible by themselves [Gittinger 1972:110]. Gittinger groups the "tampan" in Plate 38 with others having a similar composition, a composition which is found through four geographical regions. She traces the design complex from the South Coast to the mountains and seemingly on to the West Coast [Gittinger 1972:110]. See entry for X76.1365 for background information on "tampan" and "pelepai" textiles from Lampung, Sumatra.
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1972. A STUDY OF THE SHIP CLOTHS OF SUMATRA: THEIR DESIGN AND USAGE. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft2m3nb10 6

Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia