Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis), 1983.68
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Reflecting one’s rank and purpose, the majority of ceremonial skirts of the Abung consist of horizontal stripes of plain weave of varying widths. Couched gold thread is used to create raised designs that range from decorating only a few narrow bands on a skirt to covering nearly its entire surface.
1983.68 Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Called tapis raja medali, or "king's medallion skirt," this resplendent skirt for an aristocratic woman features embroidered antiquated and contemporary figurative motifs.
Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis), 1983.67
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This opened tubular skirt, with its remarkable embroidered center panel, is a singular piece. Its rich mixture of local and sought-after foreign materials, its palette of golden colors, and its shimmering opulence convey the aesthetics associated with status.
1983.67 Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This opened tubular skirt (tapis) combines a rich mixture of colors, foreign and local materials, and an opulent embroidered and appliqué center panel. It would have been worn by an aristocratic woman as a marriage skirt, or donned during dances and important ceremonial functions.
1997.36, Eero Aarnio, "Gyro" chair, designed 1968
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Pastille chair, sometimes referred to as the Gyro, is a novel interpretation of a rocking chair.
Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Boats are a ubiquitous and seminal symbol in the textile arts of Lampung. Renderings of fanciful ships were based on a weaver’s skill and the imagination of the men who reportedly drew the storyboards that portrayed vessels.
1983.69 Woman's ceremonial skirt (tapis)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Graceful ancestral boats with curving bows and sterns are embroidered with silk threads on two bands of this tapis. Each vessel carries five frontal figures. The central figure on the right boat—with a mica disk for a head—sits beneath a decorated arch and is flanked by others wearing feathered headdresses.
Woman's ceremonial skirt (kain inu)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Many of Indonesia’s oldest artistic conventions were perpetuated by peoples living in the interior or more inaccessible areas of an island, as opposed to relatively more accessible coastal areas. This ceremonial heirloom skirt was created by women living in the remote mountainous highlands surrounding Lake Ranau.
1996.182 Woman's ceremonial skirt (kain inu)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The dominant design features on this early Lampung skirt are a procession of aquatic-like underworld creatures embroidered with silk floss on an indigo ground.
Ceremonial mat (lampit)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Traditionally throughout the archipelago, well-made and often beautifully decorated mats (tikar) are unfurled to seat visitors, as well as laid out for use during communal functions.