Sarong, Batik

Sarung

A Peranakan sarong with a lereng motif (diagonal stripes) and filled with kedawung (seeds), alternating with cecek 5 (five dots). In the kepala (head) part triangular tumpal motif and in the papan (between the kepala and badan) phoenixes and isen (filling drawing).

The batik comes from the collection of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este. On December 15, 1892, the 29-year-old Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1863-1914) embarked on a ten-month journey around the world. Franz Ferdinand, who was considered the future heir to the throne after the suicide of his cousin Rudolf, dreamed of the largest private museum in Vienna. In addition to countless hunting trophies and a large collection of various taxidermy specimens, which he, as a passionate hunter, had assembled, the spoils of his journey around the world consisted of various natural history collections and an ethnographic collection numbering 14,432. In the final months of 1893, officials from the Imperial-Royal Court Museum of Natural History in the halls of the Upper Belvedere in Vienna's 3rd district began to scientifically identify, organize and arrange the rich new acquisitions and trophies. The ethnographic holdings of the world travel collection are inventoried by Franz Heger (1853-1931), the curator of the ethnographic department.