Ship cloth (palepai)
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontally rectangular panel with a "ship of the dead" design. A large symmetrical ship carrying three highly stylized figures and surrounded by abstracted waves. Design in dark blue, brick red, and white with metallic details on an undyed cotton ground. Umbrella-like forms on ship could be ancestor shrines.
- Credit Line
- AU PANIER FLEURI FUND
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1957-73-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Ship cloth (palepai)
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, silk, metallic threads Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 82.2 x 168 cm (32 3/8 x 66 1/8 in.)
- made in
- Lampung, Indonesia
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1957-73-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45c3fe2e3-b8a3-4557-966c-1f44971001bd
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