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Selimut
Selimut
Selimut
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentTextiles-Asia

Selimut

NameMan's lower garment, hip wrap, or shawl
Place madeNusa Tenggara Timur, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
MediumCotton, natural and chemical dyes
DimensionsOverall: 82 11/16 x 41 5/16 in. (210 x 105 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter Castine
Object numberA.2010.56.69
DescriptionLoosely woven medium weight fringed texile of two panels. Has repeated large and small bluish to pinkish white male figures arranged in alternating directions on both sides of the central area, the large figures with birds in hands, the smaller with "trays" over blue gray ground, which "fades" to purplish at ends. Side are wide, striped bands in chemical red, yellow, pink, orange, purple and white on blue. Chain stitched ends in purplish blue and orange. Loosely twisted hanks of fringe, shorter in central area than near edge bands.
Mat
Artist not recorded
Late 19th or early 20th century
Garment cloth
Late 19th - early 20th century
Shawl
Artist not recorded
First half, 20th century
Shawl
Artist not recorded
First half, 20th century
Plate
Linares
18th c.
Shoe pin cushion
Artist not recorded
Probably late 19th century
Chultar/cultar
Artist not recorded
ca. 1890