Cotton cloth (warp ikat) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65620 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium sp | Entry Book Number | 9.1852 | |
| Artefact Name | Cotton cloth (warp ikat) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Cotton cloth (warp ikat) | Geography Description | Borneo | ||
| Uses | Cotton cloth (warp ikat)Use: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Brooke Sir James | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 24/01/1852 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Cloth manufactured by Serebus and Sakarran Dyaks from cotton grown in their own country.x0Dx0APart of Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016x0Dx0AAdditional information fromTraude Gavin 20/09/2017: The textile is a warp i, kat (i.e. the warp threads have been pre-dyed to produce the pattern). The red dye is Morinda citrifolia (known in Dayak as 'engkudu'). This is a skirt textile. To become a garment the 2 fringed ends would have been sewn together to form a tube which w, ould then be secured at the wearer's waist either by knotting, or by being hung over a thread worn around the waist. | ||||
| Determinations: | 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium sp 84.01 RUBIACEAE Morinda citrifolia L. | ||||