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  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1950

    Sarong with horizontal repeat of large-scale curving floral spray (“buketan” motif) surrounded by birds and butterflies in black, red, and blue on undyed ground. Narrow black side borders with blue…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1957

    A panel of glazed cotton, resist-printed, probably by a batik method known as cap (tjap) printing (wax resist applied by means of blocks inlaid with copper strips). Two-thirds of the…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1957

    A panel of glazed cotton, resist-printed, probably by a batik method known as cap (tjap) printing (wax resist applied by means of blocks inlaid with copper strips). Design is dark…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1957

    A panel of glazed cotton, resist-printed, probably by a batik method known as cap (tjap) printing (wax resist applied by means of blocks inlaid with copper strips). Design is dark…

  • Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

    Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

  • Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

    Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

  • Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

    Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

  • Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

    Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1960

    Long, coarse cotton panel, probably a sarong, in rust, blue, and dark brown on cream ground. Two foliage borders followed by the head or ‘kepala’ of the piece with two…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 19th–20th century

    Sarong, cap (tjap) printed (using block to apply wax) and filled with canting (tjanting) (hand tool used to apply wax), in two shades of rust red and light blue. Printed…

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