Large textile composed of three pieces of fabric, stitched together down the width, creating a large, rectangular textile with bilaterally symmetrical imagery. Wide middle panel has dark brown-black background with geometric and zoomorphic designs, flanked by side panels decorated with stripes, and central bands with intricate motifs in light brown on dark brown-black. There is a strip of fabric sewn across the back of the top of the textile with pin holes in it. Both sides fringed.

• Narrative

  Tag says "Sumbawa Ikat Weave Natural Dyes".

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• Type of Item textile
• Culture Sumbawanese
• Material cotton fibre, dye, indigo dye
• Measurements height 206.0 cm, width 109.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Keith Franklin
• Received from Keith Franklin

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• Made in Sumbawa

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• Ownership Date before February 26, 2020
• Acquisition Date on February 26, 2020

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• Item Classes textiles
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3427/0003