Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Central? Java
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Title:
Textile; kain; wrap-around lower garment. Indonesia
Materials:
batik
Materials:
machine woven
Materials:
cotton
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
266.7 cm by 103.2 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X80.900
Subject:
- "semen"
- batik machine woven 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: "Kain" or cloth worn as a wrap-around lower garment. Batik, with a motif called "semen". This is a classical Central Javanese motif, with symbolic meanings related to the Javanese belief in cosmic order. See Elliott 1984:68-69 for a discussion and illustration of the "semen" motif.
Heading:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes:
Elliott, Inger McCabe. 1984. BATIK: FABLED CLOTH OF JAVA. New York, Clarkson N. Potter.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft9p30091 3

Textile; kain; wrap-around lower garment. Indonesia