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Unknown Maker, Sumatran

Waist cloth,

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Sumatran, Toba Batak

Title

Waist cloth

Medium

silk

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk,
  • metal thread; warp ikat,
  • supplemental weft patterning

Techniques

  • Silk,
  • metal thread; warp ikat,
  • supplemental weft patterning

Dimensions

Length: 182.9 cm (72 inches)

Place

Place Made: Sumatera Utara

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

38.204

About

Waist cloth

Place Made: Sumatera Utara

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Zone of Attraction

June 26 - December 6, 2009

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Waist cloth with the accession number of 38.204. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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