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Kachina Doll (Shulawitsa Kohana)03.325.4651

This kachina represents the Fire God Kachina.

Culture
She-we-na
Material
wood, feather, cotton, hide, silk, pigment and iron metal
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Altar Cloth2787/13

Ceremonial altar cloth in shades of brown and copper-gold. Black cotton warp, bronze metallic filament weft. Continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft with silk single filament yarn. Adat house motif, with buffalo heads.

Culture
Minangkabau
Material
cotton fibre, copper metal, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt2787/10

Ceremonial women's wrap skirt. The two panels of hand dyed purple silk, hand-loomed with a discontinuous warp, are stitched together at a horizontal seam that runs across the middle of the skirt. The continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft of silver thread creates a band of triangular temple-like motifs along the bottom and one side edge of the skirt and several lines of silver stars within the body of the fabric.

Culture
Indonesian
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre, natural dye and silver metal
Made in
Towale, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/27

Turquoise silk cloth with an overlaid purple centre panel and a looping gold filament border stitched on around the edge. The top surface of the runner-like cloth is covered with a decorative hand embroidery of mixed gold and copper filaments attached in a couching-technique known as stumping, with the resultant cross hatching of the ivory coloured thread covering the under surface. Cloth has long twined strands that hang out beneath metal fringe at both ends.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, gold metal, copper metal and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/28

Ceremonial skirt cloth (saput). Long maroon coloured cloth, hand woven on a back strap loom with discontinuous warp. The natural dyed silk is single sided and weft faced. Alternating rows of hand wrapped gold and silver thread designs decorate the central panel, framed within a gold border.

Culture
Balinese
Material
silk fibre, natural dye, gold metal, silver metal and cotton fibre ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial cloth2787/9

Ceremonial cloth in of songket brocade. Warp is red cotton, weft is purple silk, and the continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft is gold wrapped cotton thread. The centre motif of a traditional adat house is flanked by four karabau, or buffalo heads. The framing border of alternating gold filled squares and purple squares with crosses is thicker at the corners.

Culture
Minangkabau
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, gold metal and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/26

Woman's ceremonial cloth (saput). The cloth consists of two panels of red silk, hand loomed on back-strap loom with discontinuous warp and dyed with a weft ikat resist technique-known as "endek", that are sewn together with the seam down the centre. A songket supplementary weft of silver covered threads divides the central design into four rows of rectangular shapes with tall tree-like cones at either end. Within the rectangles is a red, orange and cream weft ikat.

Culture
Balinese
Material
silk fibre, natural dye and silver metal ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Altar Cloth2787/21

Ceremonial altar cloth (tok wi). Long rectangle of green silk with imbedded floral patterning is hemmed on three edges and has a border sewn along the fourth edge, consisting of three different strips of fabric hand embellished with couching techniques and embroidery in gold, silver and blue thread. Two edges are lined at the back with strips of an orange coloured silk.

Culture
Chinese: Peranakan
Material
silk fibre and gold metal
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket | Skirt2008-113/1

The wool cloth is dark purple. The button is silver and thread. The silk is dark purple.

Culture
Haida
Material
wool cloth, button, silver metal, thread and silk
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Jacket | Dress2003-83/2