1824 Antique Sumatra Tampan Ship Cloth color_multi traces of ritual use

traces of ritual use

Traditional geometric motifs that are signatures of identity of the community along with many random animal motifs

I am unable to read the text but was told that the date mentioned corresponds to Julian date of 1874

with incised lines on one cover (perhaps for an attachment

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1824 Antique Sumatra Tampan Ship Cloth color_multi traces of ritual useAntique Ship Cloth Tampan from Sumatra Layout with motifs in four quadrants The main field shows 4 houses with human figures within all created in rust red Well developed blue borders. My first impression was that because the river like lines are irregular (as they are neither straight nor perfect zigzags) this might be the work of a novice. But the precision with which the irregular lines are all parallel to each other makes me think that this is an