Javanese man's batik headcloth, 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Javanese man's batik headcloth, 1915. Original cataloging identifies it as a "Batik oedeng" in brown and indigo blue, with a motif "Cement sinom", with a price of 6 F. or $2.40. The headcloth is square, with a square central reserve on point, and a field with a densely patterned vine ground and repets of several different plant, geometric, and animal forms. One of 22 finished batik textiles, together with 14 process samples, made by prisoners in Java for exhibition at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Purchased by the US National Museum for the Division of Textiles from the Netherlands East Indies Commission at the close of the Exposition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Indonesia: Javanese
topic: label: related event
content: Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Javanese Batiks
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02926.000
label: catalog number
content: T02926.000
label: accession number
content: 59191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed, Batik
label: Object Name
content: headcloth, batik
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 42 in; 106.68 cm x 106.68 cm