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Lot 2369
CEREMONIAL CLOTH (PUA KUMBU)
Estimated Value:
800 € - 1.200 €
Schätzpreis:
400 €
Description:
Borneo/Kalimantan, Iban culture, 2nd half 20th ct.184 x 102 cm/ 79-82 x 36 cm
Cotton, patterned with natural colors in three colors in warp ikat with ancestral representations. Border stripes with imported silk. Addtional: A pair of cotton ikat textiles.
From a southern German private collection, acquired in the 1970s - Cf.: Gavin, T., The Women's Warpath: Iban Ritual Fabrics from Borneo, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1996
Small traces of use, cloth pattern trimmed at upper margin
