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333 Sumba, East Sumba
Hinggi (men's blanket)
| | Locale: | Kanatang, probably | | Period: | Early 20th c. | | Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, fine | | Technique: | Warp ikat | | Panels: | 2 | | Size: | 132 x 239 cm (4' 3" x 7' 10") LW: 1.81 | | Weight: | 825 g (29.1 oz), 262 g/m2 (0.86 oz/ft2) | | Design: | Hinggi in hondu wallah construction with asymmetric centrefield and longitudinal asymmetry in the two constituent panels. Yellow accents were added by means of the ndatta technique (daubing sections of warp during the weaving). This cloth was created with single weft, pakam tunggal. This technique is normally used only for small shawls, and almost never used for hinggi, which are ten to twelve times larger. The single weft increases the weaving workload, but produces a crisper drawing. Remarkably, the stags are shown with erect penises, an extremely rare feature. | | Comment: | Very light specific weight. A hallmark of the higher courts - such as Kanatang - encountered only in hinggi from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, up to circa 1925.. | | Background: | Chapters on Sumba and East Sumba. | | Published: | Ikat from Timor and its Outer Islands, 2022.
Noble Virtuosity: Hidden Asymmetry in Ikat from Sumba, 2024. | | |
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