Ship Cloth "Tampan"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Sep 1985
label: Collection Date
content: 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Laurene I. Mccall
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Laurene I. Mccall
notes: label: Notes
content: HEAVY TAN COTTON GROUND EMBROIDERED ALL OVER IN DIAMOND DESIGNS IN BLACK, BROWN AND YELLOW. USED CEREMONIALLY TO WRAP FOODSTUFFS AND GIFTS EXCHANGED IN MARRIAGE FESTIVALS. IDENTIFICATION BY DR. PAUL TAYLOR, CURATOR OF ASIAN ETHNOLOGY, NMNH. SEE DR. MATTIEBELLE GITTINGER, "THE SHIP TEXTILES OF SOUTH SUMATRA", J. BIGDRAGEN TOT DE TAAL, LAND EN VOLKENKUNDE VAN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE VOL. 32:207-27. PURCHASED IN YOGYAKARTA, JAVA. DONOR'S PHOTOS PLACED IN ACCESSION LEDGERS IN PROCESSING LAB, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, NMNH, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, DC.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sumatra (South), Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Lampong
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 360965
label: USNM Number
content: E422659-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Sq
content: 41.5 cm