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品名（中）	Maa布料
品名（英）	Maa cloth
入馆年号	2015年，2015.479
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1867 - 公元 1999
创作地区
分类	纺织品（Textiles）
尺寸	73 1/4 × 39 5/8 英寸 (186.1 × 100.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	一种欧洲生产的礼仪纺织品，用于印度尼西亚苏拉威西岛中部的托拉贾社区的销售，传统上被称为maa，一种"来自远方/跨海而来"的祖先的布料。这种布料在当地的宇宙观中起着核心作用，无疑指的是历史上的异国情调的布料贸易，最著名的是早期的印度贸易纺织品，它们展示了这里描绘的设计。这块布描绘了一个中央开花的生命之树图案，以当地的托拉贾白话设计语言渲染——注意树出现的山，以及水牛上的男人——而封闭的花卉圆形边框设计和末端边界的锯齿（印度尼西亚肚子图案）反映了更广泛的印度贸易布设计曲目（见盖伊， 1998）。它很可能是在荷兰或德国制造的，在19世纪的过程中，出现了一个充满活力的纺织印花行业，明确地服务于"殖民地客户"的需求。位于荷兰东南部赫尔蒙德的Vlisco工厂以供应印度尼西亚和西非市场而闻名（后者市场今天仍在继续）。这种布料的确切工厂来源值得进一步研究。
介绍（英）	A ceremonial textile produced in Europe for marketing amongst the Toraja communities of central Sulawesi, Indonesia, where it is traditionally known as a maa, a cloth of the ancestors that ‘came from afar / across the sea’. Such cloths play a central role in the local cosmologies, and undoubtedly refer to the historic trade in exotic cloths, most notably early Indian trade textiles which displayed such designs as seen depicted here. This cloth, depicts a central flowering Tree of Life motif, rendered in a local Toraja vernacular design language – note the mountain from which the tree emerges, and the men on buffaloes - whilst the enclosing floral roundel border designs and the saw-tooth (Indonesian tumpal motifs) of the end borders reflect a wider Indian trade cloth design repertoire (see Guy, 1998). It was most likely manufactured in the Netherlands or Germany, where in the course of the 19th century a vibrant textile printing industry emerged expressly to serve the needs of “colonial clients”. The Vlisco factory in Helmond, southeast Holland, was particularly famed for supplying both the Indonesian and West Africa markets (the latter market continues today). The precise factory origin of this cloth warrants further research.