Specifications

• Height: 231 x 124 cm.
• Material: cotton
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: ikat pua
• Price realised: € 7.560,-

Provenance

Sam Josefowitz (1922-2015), Lausanne, before 1981; on loan to Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Sotheby’s, Paris 9-4-2021, lot 42.

Publications

Ref.: Gavin, Traude (2003), Iban ritual textiles, 184.

Exhibitions

Additional information

The central pattern shows a serpent pattern and the end borders are embellished with a type of fruit pattern (buah belum) and a ‘drunken motif’ (buah mabuk).

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris