Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; ulos; paromba sadum?; child carrier. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Batak
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
North Sumatra
Title: 
Textile; ulos; paromba sadum?; child carrier. Indonesia
Materials: 
handwoven
Materials: 
supplementary weft
Materials: 
beaded
Materials: 
cotton
Materials: 
glass beads
Materials: 
wool?
Materials: 
metal bells
Materials: 
fabric
Dimensions: 
215.0 cm by 63.5 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X70.112
Subject: 
- inscription - handwoven supplementary weft beaded cotton glass beads wool? metal bells fabric
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Content/Description
Notes: 
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: Single panel of cloth, decorated with supplementary weft, beadwork, metal bells, and a band near each end executed in a wrapped warp tapestry technique. This cloth very closely matches the description of a "parompa sadum" given in Gittinger 1975:28. The cloth described is from the Angkola Batak people. "Parompa" are the class of "ulos" used as a carrying sling for children. This cloth contains an inscription woven in supplementary weft. Rodgers-Siregar [1980:97] describes such inscriptions in the textiles of the Angkola Batak in the Sipirok area of the Tapanuli Highlands.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes: 
Rodgers-Siregar, Susan. 1980. "Blessing shawls: the social meaning of Sipirok Batak ulos". In INDONESIAN TEXTILES, Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles 1979 Proceedings, Mattiebelle Gittinger (ed.), The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/ft767nb413