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Unknown Artist
- Title
- sacred heirloom banner ('sarita')
- Place of origin
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Toraja →
Sulawesi →
Indonesia
- Cultural origin
- Dutch manufactured for the Toraja market
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, indigo dyes; paste resist dyeing
- Dimensions
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32.0 x 597.5cm [weft x warp]
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Accession number
- 279.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The 'sarita', a distinctive type of sacred textile (maa’) amongst the Toraja people of Sulawesi, were used in various ways: they were flown from tall bamboo poles before the house of a dead person, or wrapped around the head of the wooden effigy representing the dead. The 'sarita' is also significant technically because the designs were obtained by a resist process that must have resembled batik.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, July 2006
- Bibliography (2)
-
Robyn Maxwell (Australia) (Author), Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990, 368-369.
Sylvia Fraser-Lu (Author), Handwoven textiles of South-East Asia, Singapore, 1988.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Symbols and Ceremonies: Indonesian Textile Traditions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Apr 2006–28 May 2006.
