Ship cloth (palepai)
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontally rectangular panel with a "ship of the dead" design. A large symmetrical ship carrying three highly stylized figures and surrounded by abstracted waves. Design in dark blue, brick red, and white with metallic details on an undyed cotton ground. Umbrella-like forms on ship could be ancestor shrines.
place: label: made in
content: Lampung, Indonesia
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-73-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Ship cloth (palepai)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, silk, metallic threads Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 82.2 x 168 cm (32 3/8 x 66 1/8 in.)