Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
Lampung
Creation Place: 
Sumatra
Title: 
Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia
Date: 
1900-Collected 1974
Materials: 
handwoven
Materials: 
supplementary weft
Materials: 
handspun cotton
Materials: 
fabric
Dimensions: 
303.5 cm by 44.4 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X76.1367A
Subject: 
- ship human animal chequered scroll geometric - handwoven supplementary weft handspun cotton 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: The animals appear to be stylized bird forms similar to those in Gittinger's Plates 1-8, although they have four legs instead of two [Gittinger 1972:167-168]. The human figures with their rectangular body forms appear to be typical of the Liwa-Kenali and Krui areas [Gittinger 1972:159]. In the Krui District, "tampan" are often woven in strips with continuous warp threads and only cut into squares when needed. X76.1367A is an example of this technique, of which Entwhistle found no evidence in other areas of Southern Lampung [Entwhistle 1974:3]. See entry for X76.1365 for background information on "tampan" and "pelepai" textiles from Lampung, Sumatra.
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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/ft40000523