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date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1985
label: Collection Date
content: Early 1900's
name: label: Collector
content: Miguel Covarrubias
label: Collector
content: Rosa Covarrubias
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Thomas J. Williams
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG, HORIZONTAL SCROLL OF NARRATIVE CLOTH PAINTING. BATTLE SCENES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INDIAN EPIC, RAMAYANA WITH REPRESENTATIONS OF LEGENDARY FIGURES OF GODS(HEROS AND HEROINES), ARMED DEMONS, MONKEY ARMIES, INCLUDING ANIMAL FIGURES OF ELEPHANT AND HORSE IN THE TRADITIONAL COLOR RANGE: BLACK, RED OCHRE, BLUE, YELLOW AND BROWN AGAINST WHITE BACKGROUND DECORATED WITH CLOUD PATTERN DESIGN. VARIOUS COLOR SUBSTANCES MADE OF SOOT, POWDERED BONES, INDIGO, AND MINERAL PIGMENTS MIXED WITH FISH GLUE. SCENES SEPARATED BY A TREE, FLAME AND MOUNTAIN MOTIF AND OTHER SYMBOLS. USED FOR FESTIVE DECORATION OF TEMPLE STRUCTURES OR PAVILIONS, SERVING RITUAL PURPOSES. UNMOUNTED. EARLY 20TH CENTURY. REF.: RUBISSOW, H. ART OF ASIA PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY INC.,1954,P.7; HOLT, CLAIRE. ART IN INDONESIA, CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1967, PP.173-4, AND FOR SYNOPSIS OF THE RAMAYANA, PP.267-9; DONOR'S COLLECTION INFORMATION SHEETS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Java, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Javanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 360964
label: USNM Number
content: E422937-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scroll
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 25.5 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 472 cm