- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Batik resist dyed body cloth.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1943
- Date collected
- By 1943
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1943
- Materials and processes
- Material Pigment, Material Textile, Process Batik Resist Dyed, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1943.2.5
- Research and responses
Field Collector and PRM Source - From the date of donation the PRM Source is Walter William Skeat (1866 - 1953), although the subject matter and country of origin suggests that the field collector was Walter William Skeat (1835 - 1912), possibly the father of the Donor. [JD 14/1/2006]
Search terms: Clothing, Textile, Body Cloth
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