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shoulder cloth

human history
  • Other Name

    Selendang (Sumatera)

  • Description

    Sumatran selendang or shoulder cloth, used for carrying and nursing a child

    cloth, cotton, dark purple/brown with black stripes and white, supplementary weave carrying decorative motifs on cross stripes in red, green, white and yellow.

  • Place
    Sumatra/Indonesia
  • Accession Date
    28 May 1975
  • Other Id

    T909 (textile)

    47736 (ethnology)

    1975.90 (accession number)

    B112 (Dunningham)

  • Department

    World

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  • shoulder cloth, T909, 47736, 1975.90, B112, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 11 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • shoulder cloth, T909, 47736, 1975.90, B112, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 11 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • shoulder cloth, T909, 47736, 1975.90, B112, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 11 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • shoulder cloth, T909, 47736, 1975.90, B112, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 11 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • shoulder cloth, T909, 47736, 1975.90, B112, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 11 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • shoulder cloth, T909, 47736, 1975.90, B112, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 11 Jan 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • Cloth
  • Cloth

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