Ceremonial Cloth (pua kumbu)

Textiles

20th century

Iban people
Indonesia, Borneo, Sarawak, Saribas River area

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Iban
Title: Ceremonial Cloth (pua kumbu)
Place: Indonesia (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1901–2000
Medium: Two panels joined: cotton, stripes of plain weave (paired warps) and warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave (paired warps); with supplementary weft twining; main warp plied knotted fringe
Dimensions: 222 × 103 cm (87 3/8 × (40 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2002.952

Brigette Khan Majlis, The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E. M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 33, 2 (2007): 98-99, cat. 57.

Art Institute of Chicago, Galleries 108-109, The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E. M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 1, 2007–Mar. 2, 2008, cat.

E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles inventory EMB-9009-T, incoming receipt RX23940, dated Jan. 22, 2003, in curatorial file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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