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
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19th–20th century
late 19th to early 20th century
19th century
19th century
19th or early 20th century
19th or early 20th century
early 20th century
1860–80
19th century