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Ceremonial textile, or maa', with rows of walking figures
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › South-east Asia › Indonesia › Sulawesi (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1900
- Material and technique
- cotton, probably painted with blue, yellow, and red dyes
- Dimensions
- 266 x 135 cm (warp x weft)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1996.
- Accession no.
- EA1996.19
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), vol. i p. 121, illus. vol. i pl. 43
Location
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- currently in research collection
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