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+ Ceremonies and rites
+ Indonesian culture
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Textile length, India for Indonesian market, 1700 - 1799
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Object statement
Textile length, painted cotton, maker unknown, Gujarat, India, 1700-1800
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
Loosely woven cotton ground; two panels joined at the selvages; surface painting depicting flowers, trees and dense foliage in predominant deep red, outlines drawn in black; blue, yellow and green added. Square format, centrefield framed by border 32 cm wide; central circular floral pattern.
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
This textile was collected in Tanah Toraja and was probably used by the Toraja people as a mawa, or ceremonial textile.

Origin uncertain, but textile looks similar to a palampore illustrated in Irwin (1971, plate 21), from Madras state.

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Description
Painted cotton textile length with a design of three flowers in a central circular border surronded by a rectangle with floral design, enclosed by a further border also with floral design, in two shades of green, deep red, yellow and blue on a white ground with black outlines. Gujarat, India. 18th century.

Made: Gujarat, India; 1700 - 1799


Used: Toraja people; Sulawesi
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
A10378
Production date
1700 - 1799
Height
2300 mm
Width
2000 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1984
Subjects
+ Ceremonies and rites
+ Indonesian culture
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{{cite web |url=http://from.ph/169698 |title=Textile length, India for Indonesian market |author=Powerhouse Museum |accessdate=21 May 2013 |publisher=Powerhouse Museum, Australia}}


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