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Cloth for men
Cloth used as a hip or shoulder cloth by men.\The native name for this cloth, 'hinggi kombu' is a compound of 'hinggi' , shoulder cloth, and 'kombu', which is both the name of the dyeing process and the rust red dye extracted from the roots of the kombu tree (Museum voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam, 1966:17).\The motifs on this cloth include geometric, floral, horses, a bull, snakes, birds and 'mamuli' …
Type of item
- Object Type: fabric
- fabric fragment
- Textile
Date
- voor 1970
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1970
Provenance
- 1970-11-17
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/125243
Format
- Technique: ikat
- ikat
- Ikat
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- wax
- raffia (fiber)
- paint
- ambergris
- weave
- patterning techniques
- general techniques
- spinning
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z