Woman's Shoulder Cloth (Selendang limar)

Textiles

19th century

Indonesia, Sumatra, Palembang

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Woman's Shoulder Cloth (Selendang limar)
Place: Sumatra (Object made in)
Date: Made 1801–1900
Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, warp and weft resist dyed (warp and weft ikat) plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts
Dimensions: 219.7 × 87 cm (86 1/2 × 34 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2002.995
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E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles inventory EMB-5462, incoming receipt RX23940, dated Jan. 22, 2003, in curatorial file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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