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  • Textile (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Cotton printed in imitation of tie-dye. Large and smaller rosettes and spirals of small dots, in mottled brick red on a deep blue ground.

  • Head Cloth (kain Kepala) (Indonesia), early 19th century

    Square textile (may be a head cloth or ‘kain kepala’) with symmetrical “mirong” motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu) on ground covered with crayfish, birds, etc. In beige with…

  • Head Cloth (kain Kepala) (Indonesia), early 19th century

    Square textile (may be a head cloth or ‘kain kepala’) with symmetrical “semen” (non-geometric forms like flora and fauna) design. Featuring “sawat” motif (wings and tail of Garuda, mount of…

  • Shoulder Cloth (selendang) (Indonesia), 1900–25

    Long, narrow panel with an elongated lozenge of red in the center surrounded by a dark blue field with irregular white dots in diagonal pattern. A white scalloped line surrounds…

  • Textile (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Printed cotton with scrolling vine and fantastical fruits and pods. Irregular colors of yellow, orange and pink with crackle effect, with background of deep blue. Pattern is in resist or…

  • Tie (Indonesia), mid-20th century

    Unfolded material for a tie with tan and white crackle design on dark blue ground. Design shows horizontal rows of various geometric and floral patterns with large design of dark…

  • Textile (Indonesia), 18th–19th century

    Row of three ogival medallions: middle one with rosette, outer two with crested bird and flowers as well as remnants of deep toothed zigzag border on either side. Much filling…

  • Kain (Indonesia), late 19th century

    Warp surfaced cloth (kain) with black stripes alternating with broad group of red and yellow stripes of various widths with a few black pencil stripes. Various stripes sewn with rosettes,…

  • Textile (Indonesia), 1900–1950

    Dark red silk panel with pattern in silver and gold: central field of close-set interlocking stripes of lozenges. Deep end borders with “tumpal” motif (row of isosceles triangles).

  • Textile (Indonesia), mid-20th century

    Dark blue ground with alternating conch-chells with painted decoration and fish, each framed in a rectangle by herringbone-like bands. White and soft blues.

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