Specifications

  • Length: 197 x 102 cm.
  • Material: cotton
  • Position:
  • Gender:
  • Indigenous name: ikat pua sungkit
  • Price realised: € 61.740,-

Provenance

Sam Josefowitz (1922-2015), Lausanne before 1981; on loan to Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Sotheby’s, Paris 9-4-2021, lot 38.

Publications

Gavin, Traude (2003), Iban ritual textiles, 281-87.

Exhibitions

 

Additional information

According to Gavin the motif of figures ( buah engkeramba) on the central panel were indigenous to the Saribas. According to her informants they did not represent ancestors as is the popular description.

 

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris

Contact Arnold Wentholt

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