Title
Sacred heirloom banner (sarita)
20th century
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Toraja
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Sulawesi
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Indonesia
- Cultural origin
- Dutch manufactured for the Toraja market
- Date
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, indigo dyes; paste resist dyeing
- Dimensions
- 32.0 x 597.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 279.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
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About
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
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Symbols and Ceremonies: Indonesian Textile Traditions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 2006–28 May 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Handwoven textiles of South-East Asia, Singapore, 1988.
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Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990, 368-369.
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