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2062 Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment - Indigo flowers over-1000 Complete Book

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When Bhopas commission a new Phad the old ancestral Phad is usually consecrated and laid down in holy waters

Note also the swastika motif at the end that is often seen in the East and has no connection to the symbolism in the West

The central band is adorned with pairs of four rows of human figures (total of 24)

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2062 Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment - Indigo flowers over-1000 Complete BookFantastic little fragment of an Indian Trade textile. Amazing Indigo blue & salmon flower. A large example with the same aesthetic quality with dozens of flowers is present in the Tapi collection. [reference: pages 6 & 7 of 'Masters of the Cloth'] Collected on a field visit to Toraja, Sulawesi. This fragment has been saved from a fire therefore has burn marks present. Holes and stains. Edges not even. 42 x 25 cm (at the maxima) Similar to 1897 but

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