Specifications

  • Height: cm
  • Material: cotton, glass beads
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  • Gender:
  • Indigenous name: lawo butu
  • Price realised:

Provenance

Loed van Bussel, The Hague/Amsterdam, 1970s.

Publications

Ref.: Murray, Thomas (ed.)(2021), Textiles of Indonesia, pp. 367-373.

Exhibitions

 

Additional information

Lozenges, horses, human figures in imported multi-cloured glass beads (butu). It is possible that orange-red ceramic beads (mutisalah) were applied as well. A fine example of a trade abandoned in the late 20th century and the last items came out in the early 1990s.

 

Photo credits

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