Ceremonial Waist Sash (ikak pinggang)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Minangkabau

Title

Ceremonial Waist Sash (ikak pinggang)

Place

Sumatra (Object made in)

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Made 1801–1900

Medium

Cotton, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton; in bands of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and slit and dovetailed tapestry weave; ends of wool, plain weave; fulled; edged with tape of cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton and gilt-metal strip, plain weave with supplementary wefts; underlaid with tape of cotton, plain weave with extended paired weft and silvered-metal coil fringe

Dimensions

335 × 9.5 cm (131 7/8 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection

Reference Number

2002.908

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