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Javanese, Java

Long cloth (kain panjang), 1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Javanese

Title

Long cloth (kain panjang)

Year

1800s

Medium

Cotton; block batik (cap)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • cotton

Dimensions

Length: 251.5 cm (99 inches)

Place

Java

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.569

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Zone of Attraction

June 26 - December 6, 2009

The central textile in this case is a Javanese dodot, a royal ceremonial skirt cloth that is more than twice the size of a regular long cloth (kain panjang). All three textiles are patterned with semèn - a conspicuously male iconography with Hindu roots. Part of a group of batik motifs historically reserved for nobility and representing the cosmic realm, its name derives from the Javanese word semi, meaning to sprout. The pattern also includes temple buildings, plant tendrils, and animals, in particular the bird garuda, representative of heaven and earth, and the snake, or naga, symbolizing the mother of the underworld and the creatures of the sea.

Batiks from Indonesia

February 28 - June 8, 1986

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