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: 
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: 
61.0 cm by 59.6 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X76.1406
Subject: 
- diamond human scrolls rosettes zig zag - 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 angular scroll motifs may derive from bird forms [Gittinger 1972:167-168, Plates 2-8]. The bisected diamond forms may represent the "rumah pojang" and "rumah dewa" structures for the commemoration of ancestors and dieties [Gittinger 1972:138-144, Plates 21-23.] 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/ft8g5008c5