Textile panel, 14th-15th century
Unknown artist, Indiaexpand_more
Cottonexpand_more
The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund and gift of Robert T. Coffland in memory of Mary Hunt Kahlenbergexpand_more 2018.50.32
On View in Gallery 211expand_more
This cloth is radiocarbon dated to 1347-1467; it was created in Gujarat on handwoven cotton and features two bands of block-printed flowering trees and bushes, further hand-drawn, resist and mordant dyed, and the background over-dyed with red and indigo for a lush, purple ground. The cloth was manufactured for export, primarily to the Toraja region of Sulawesi where the flower design was called daun bolu, referencing the leaf of sirih plant, a key ingredient in chewing betel. There, it would have been used as a ceremonial banner, displayed at auspicious occasions and otherwise kept with a family’s pusaka, or sacred heirlooms cloth (radiocarbon dated 1340+/-40 years) was recovered from burial sites in Fustat, just south of the trading crossroads of Cairo.
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