About the Artwork
Palepai
late 19th century
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Sumatran
Unknown
Supplementary weft on plain weave cotton
Overall: 18 1/4 × 68 3/4 inches (46.4 × 174.6 cm)
Textiles
Asian Art
Gift of Mrs. Hanns Schaeffer
41.19
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Mrs. Hanns Schaeffer
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 21, no. 1 (1941-42): pp. 4-5 (ill.).
Solyom, Garret and Bronwen Solyom. Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago. Honolulu, 1972, no. 34, pp. 36-37, (ill. pl. 16).
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Sumatran, Palepai, late 19th century, supplementary weft on plain weave cotton. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Hanns Schaeffer, 41.19.
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