Length of Javanese batik-patterned fabric, 1900-1950
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1950
notes: label: Description
content: Length of batik (wax-resist-dyed) fabric, extraordinary non-repeating design of domesticated and wild animals, birds, insects, reptiles, human figures, and flowers in multi-colors on an off white, plain weave cotton ground, patterned with scrolling stems and small comma-like marks. Figures not to one scale. There is a building depicted in the center, and many of the figures are shown in pairs, possibly male and female. Noah's Ark depiction? Or another myth? Java, Indonesia; 1900-1950. 97.5" L x 41.5" wide. Selvage width panel. Tjanting batik, with the wax drawn by hand. One of three batiks with very different patterning given by the same donor, and numbered as .00A, .00B, and .00C. One of a group of five Indonesian textiles given by the donor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Indonesia: Javanese
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Javanese Batiks
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Gladys Visel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T18487.00C
label: catalog number
content: T18487.00C
label: accession number
content: 1978.0620
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed, Batik
label: Object Name
content: fabric length, batik
label: Object Name
content: fabric length, batik
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, tjanting batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 97 1/2 in x 41 1/2 in; 247.65 cm x 105.41 cm