Ritual weacing

Published/Created:

Indonesia, Sumatra: Lampung south coast
ca. 1800-1900

Physical Description:

80 x 77.5 cm

Materials:

cotton, supplementary weft

Notes:

Tampan are ceremonial cloths used in Lampung, South Sumatra, as seats during rituals, covers for ritual gifts (especially during marriages), places to lay the heads of the dead ad cappings for house-poles. Some cloths have abstracted geometric, vegetal, a

Variant Titles:

Tampan

Topics:

Textiles -- Southeast Asia -- Indonesia -- (YVRC)

Accession Number:

2887-032

Genre:

textiles (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Clothing & Accessories
Furnishings & Decorative Arts

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Source Note:

Jessup, Court Arts of Indonesia, 1990

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection, Asian Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Original Repository:

Collection of Robert J. Holmgren and Anita E. Spertus

Local Record Number:

Portfolio Item ID: 206000

OID:

476393

PID:

digcoll:1890387