skirt

Tabby-woven cotton skirt cloth, kain panjang, decorated with hand drawn batik in blue-black and brown on a cream ground. The design, alas-alasan, has been dyed in traditional court colours of indigo and soga. It contains floral, bird and animal motis on a flecked ground. If the animal motifs on one half are viewed the right way up, the one on the other half appear upside down. In each half the animals shown on the same line across are arranged in mirroring pairs. The textile has been hemmed at both shorter sides.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2003.1084
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 1060 mm x 2375 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cotton; dye; indigo; textile
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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