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SLENDANG (CEREMONIAL ROBE)
SOUTH EAST SUMATRA, PALEMBANG, CIRCA 1900
Kain Prada, cloth of gold, delicately stamped in gilt on resist-dyed red silk with a gold mica geometric and floral pattern
32 x 81 in. (82 x 206 cm.)
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These textiles were worn by women at important ceremonies such as weddings and festivals.

For a discussion of these textiles, see Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia - Tradition, Trade and Transformation, Australian National Gallery, 1990, fig. 262, p175-186. Also Sinobu Yoshimoto, Kain Perada: The Gold Printed Textiles of Indonesia: The Hirayama Collection, Tokyo, 1988 and J Hope, Cloth of Gold', Hali no. 49, February1990, pp. 39-43

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