Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; selendang; shawl or waist wrap. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Bali
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
Klungkung
Title: 
Textile; selendang; shawl or waist wrap. Indonesia
Date: 
Collected 1930s
Materials: 
handwoven
Materials: 
supplementary weft
Materials: 
"songket"
Materials: 
silk
Materials: 
metallic thread
Materials: 
fabric
Dimensions: 
299.5 cm by 41.0 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X74.321
Subject: 
- geometric phytomorphic zoomorphic birds? bees? - handwoven supplementary weft "songket" silk metallic thread 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: "Selendang", used as a shawl or waist wrap. Decorated with the "songket" technique of supplementary weft with metallic thread. Both gold and silver colored wrapped yarns used. The accession sheet lists the provenience as Klungkung, and indeed "songket" work is associated with the Klungkung area [Covarrubias 1937:196], but the technique is also more generally associated with the aristocrtic class in former princely courts [Gittinger 1979:141]. Would have been used as an item of aristocratic attire at ceremonial occasions, or possibly as a costume item in dance and theatrical performances.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Notes: 
Gittinger, Mattiebelle. 1979. SPLENDID SYMBOLS: TEXTILES AND TRADITIONS IN INDONESIA. Washington D.C.: The Textile Museum.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
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