Batik Textile
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Aug 1989
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward H. Smith Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: An appraisal in the accession file says: "A Javanese hand-batik textile from the Surakarta Region. This batik is executed on a hand-woven cloth and is by the same artist as [E431835]. The artist, and Indonesian of Chinese descent, is reported to have been an advisor to the royal palace."
label: Notes
content: Handwoven cotton cloth, hand-batiked. Dark yellow background. Covered with bug motifs in black and darker yellow. Heavy blue "cracks". Unhemmed.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Surakarta (Solo) (not certain), Java, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Javanese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361230
label: USNM Number
content: E431836-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Textile
physicalDescription: label: Width
content: 86.4 cm
label: Length
content: 287 cm