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Ceremonial cloth and sacred heirloom [mawa or ma'a]
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India
Collected Palembang, south Sumatra
Ceremonial cloth and sacred heirloom
[mawa or ma'a]
Palampore
late 18th-early 19th century Coromandel coast India
handspun cotton, natural dyes, mordants
mordant painting
244.0 (h) x 156.0 (w) cm
Gift of Michael and Mary Abbott 1988
NGA 1988.1621
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