Ritual Textile (Pua Kumbu) | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Not on view

Medium: Cotton; warp-faced plain weave, warp ikat
Dimensions: 91 3/4 × 48 1/16 in. (233 × 122 cm)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
Loan number: ILE2012.30.734
Geography: Made in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
Culture: Iban
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Sold to unknkown dealer, Kapit or Kuching, Malaysia; sold to James Gavin, Singapore, early 1980s; sold to Lavi Daniel, 1988; sold to Thomas Jaffe, New York, May 2011; promised gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn

Bibliography

Dr. Traude Gavin, The Women's Warpath: Iban Ritual Fabrics from Borneo (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1996), 48, fig. 45

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

Pua

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