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Woman's ceremonial lower body wrapper (tapis)

19th century
Object PlaceSouth Sumatra (Krui), Lampong region, Indonesia
Medium/TechniqueCotton plain-weave ground, natural dyes, silk embroidery, metallic gold paper wrapped-thread discontinuous supplementary weft patterning and couching, applied pieces of mica-covered lead.
DimensionsOverall: 137.2 × 129.5 cm (51 × 54 in.)
Credit LineOtis Norcross Fund
Accession number1980.282
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceProbably in the 1970s, acquired in Indonesia by Jeff Holmgren and Anita Spertus, New York; 1980, sold by Holmgren and Spertus to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 10, 1980)