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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Bali
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Indonesia
- Date
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, natural dyes, supplementary weft weave
- Dimensions
- 105.2 x 156.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 269.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
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This textile follows the format of more elaborate Balinese skirtcloths or hangings ('saput songket / kampuh songket'). It is decorated with a repeated motif of paired figures standing in profile holding an archer's bow, interspersed with a large floral motif. The motif of figures in the distinctive wayang 'kulit' or shadow puppet style probably draws its imagery from the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Bali
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990, 188.
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