Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place:
Baturaja
Creation Place:
Indonesia
Creation Place:
Lampung
Creation Place:
Pedada
Creation Place:
Sumatra
Title:
Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia
Date:
1900-Collected 1974
Materials:
handwoven
Materials:
supplementary weft
Materials:
handspun cotton
Materials:
fabric
Dimensions:
58.3 cm by 55.3 cm
Current Location:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address:
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID:
UCLA FMCH X76.1393
Subject:
- tree animal ship bird? geometric 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: This composition, a tree riding in a ship with limbs supporting birds, animals and human figures, has a broad distribution. Gittinger illustrates similar examples from the South [Gittinger 1972:Plates 9-12] and Krui Coasts [Gittinger 1972:Plate 13] and refers to examples similar to Plate 10 found in Liwa and the Semangka Bay "kampung" (="village") Putih Doh [Gittinger 1972:98]. In a generalized Indonesian context, the tree motif may be compared to a sacred tree planted on a stone terrace in the center of a village or, more broadly, as cosmic tree symbolism [Gittinger 1972:155]. More specifically, the large trees with the single ship probably represent the "kayu ara", the many limbed pole hung with gifts and ceremonially plundered at rites of passage ceremonies [Gittinger 1972:156-157]. The animals depicted on the tree limbs have not been identified. Somewhat similar animals with raised backs can be seen in Plate 85 [Gittinger 1972:172]. 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/ft2c6004h s

Textile; tampan; gift wrapping. Indonesia