Selendang (casual wear head wrap) of dark blue cotton batik patterned with birds and plant motifs in shades of tan and white
- Title
- Selendang (casual wear head wrap) of dark blue cotton batik patterned with birds and plant motifs in shades of tan and white
- LC Subject
- accessories (object genre)
- Description
- Selendang (casual wear head wrap) of dark blue cotton batik patterned with birds and plant motifs in shades of tan and white; geometric tan patterned border; dark blue ground is patterned with tiny leaves and white polka-dots.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Birds Edible-nest swiftlet Plants
- Work Type
- headscarves
- Location
- Bali >> Lesser Sunda Islands >> Sunda Islands >> Indonesia
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1948.005.005
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Batik Wax resist dye
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- The pod-like nests with birds in them appear to be a motif of the Edible-nest swiftlets, a bird found in South East Asia that creates its nest out of hardened saliva. The nests are used to make the renowned, Bird's Nest Soup, and are one of the most expensive animal ingredients in the world. The soup is said to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties. The plump birds appear to be the Bali myna or starling bird.
