Sarong Collection

Mrs. Anna Higgins Matthiesen, portrait photograph, 1925. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Anna Higgins Matthiesen, portrait photograph, 1925

Costumes de Différents Pays, Ministre et Negre du Royaume de Benin, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Ministre et Negre du Royaume de Benin, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Noble de l'Isle de Java, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Noble de l'Isle de Java, c1797

Blind Man and His Daughter, Vaiala, Samoa, 1890. Creator: John La Farge
Blind Man and His Daughter, Vaiala, Samoa, 1890

Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 5 (Jujaka), 1850-1870. Creator: Unknown
Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 5 (Jujaka), 1850-1870

Architectural Bracket in the Form of a Celestial Musician (image 2 of 3), c.16th century. Creator: Unknown
Architectural Bracket in the Form of a Celestial Musician (image 2 of 3), c.16th century

Costumes de Différents Pays, Femme des I'les Manilles, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Femme des I'les Manilles, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Homme de l'Isle des Amis, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Homme de l'Isle des Amis, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Homme et Femme de Qualité le Yaggas, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Homme et Femme de Qualite le Yaggas, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Femmes Barbaresques, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Femmes Barbaresques, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Femme de l'Isle d'Amboine, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Femme de l'Isle d'Amboine, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Homme de l'Isle de Java, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Homme de l'Isle de Java, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Femme Noble de l'Isle de Java, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Femme Noble de l'Isle de Java, c1797

Javaanse Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Creator: Unknown
Javaanse Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Clothes make the man, so too in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but types

Javanese Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Creator: Unknown
Javanese Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Clothes make the man, so too in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but types

Javanese Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Creator: Unknown
Javanese Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Clothes make the man, so too in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but types

Javanese Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Creator: Unknown
Javaanse Court Officials, c.1820-c.1870. Clothes make the man, so too in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but types

Pusega, daughter of Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe, 1778. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon
Pusega, daughter of Coba (or Kobe), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe, 1778

Hairstyles, traditional styles in Ceylon, 1785-1786. Creator: Jan Brandes
Hairstyles, traditional styles in Ceylon, 1785-1786. Women's heads showing the hairstyle or Konde'; a merchant, a Singalese, women slaves. With inscription

Sinhalese soldiers in the service of the VOC and envoys of the King of Kandy, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Sinhalese soldiers in the service of the VOC and envoys of the King of Kandy, 1785. VOC emblem on top of a pillar. On the left are the Singalese or Ceylonese VOC soldiers and orderlies

Javanese auxiliary troops of the Company, 1779-1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Javanese auxiliary troops of the Company, 1779-1785. General and the officers in the foreground and in the background the soldiers of the VOC in Batavia. With inscription

Woman with albinism covering her eyes, c.1675-c.1725. Creator: Anon
Woman with albinism covering her eyes, c.1675-c.1725. Woman in red/white/yellow striped sarong and white jacket. She holds her hand in front of her eyes against the bright light

Mestizo woman, c.1675-c.1725. Creator: Anon
Mestizo woman, c.1675-c.1725. Woman dressed in a sarong with red/white/blue patterns, a white shirt and a green/yellow jacket. She wears a red necklace and a black bracelet

Malay woman with infant and eggplant, c.1675-c.1725. Creator: Anon
Malay woman with infant and eggplant, c.1675-c.1725. A woman breastfeeding a naked child. She is dressed in a red/white checkered sarong and a white jacket

Morgan, Miss, 1916? Creator: Arnold Genthe
Morgan, Miss, 1916?

Woman's Skirt (Sarong), Indonesia, . Creator: Unknown
Woman's Skirt (Sarong), Indonesia

Havachach-Maricopa, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Havachach-Maricopa, c1907. Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of a Maricopa woman

By the canal-Maricopa, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
By the canal-Maricopa, c1907. Photograph shows a Maricopa woman sitting on the bank of a canal, holding a clay pot

Native of Tahiti, 1859. Creator: Joseph Selleny
Native of Tahiti, 1859

Right hand panel of The Pearl Divers triptych by Utamaro, c1797-98, (1936). Creator
Right hand panel of The Pearl Divers triptych by Utamaro, c1797-98, (1936). Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock of a woman wringing waistcloth holding knife in her mouth while

A Summer Girl, 1905. Creator: Helen Hyde
A Summer Girl, 1905

Noa Noa, n. d. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Noa Noa, n.d

Two Tahitian Women in a Landscape, c. 1892. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Two Tahitian Women in a Landscape, c. 1892

Angel, Peacock, and Three Tahitians, c. 1902. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Angel, Peacock, and Three Tahitians, c. 1902

Ia orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1894 / 95, published Mar. 1895. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Ia orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1894/95, published Mar. 1895

Tahitian Girl in a Pink Pareu, 1894. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Tahitian Girl in a Pink Pareu, 1894

Pape moe, 1893 / 94. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Pape moe, 1893/94

Noa noa (Fragrant), 1894 / 95. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Noa noa (Fragrant), 1894/95

Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893 / 94. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Noa Noa (Fragrant), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893/94

Te faruru (Here We Make Love), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893 / 94. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Te faruru (Here We Make Love), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893/94

Street scene in West Bengal, India, 2019. Creator: Unknown
Street scene in West Bengal, India, 2019

No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?), 1896. Creator: Paul Gauguin
No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?), 1896

The left hand and last panel of The Pearl Divers triptych, c1797-98, (1936). Creator
The left hand and last panel of a triptych by Utamaro, c1797-98, (1936). Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock of a woman lowering one leg into water with another pointing at fish

Illustration to Skeats Fables and Folk Tales from An Eastern Forest, 1901. Artist: Frederick Henry Townsend
Illustration to Skeats Fables and Folk Tales from An Eastern Forest, 1901. Fables and Folk Tales from An Eastern Forest was a book by Walter William Skeat (1835?1912), published in 1901

Otahi (Alone), 1893 (1939). Artist: Paul Gauguin
Otahi (Alone), 1893 (1939). Plate taken from Gauguin, by John Rewald, published by William Heinemann (London and Toronto, printed in France and Belgium, 1939)

Lisum women of central Borneo, 1922. Artist: Dr Charles Hose
Lisum women of central Borneo, 1922. Illustration from Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume II, British Empire to Dahomey, edited by J A Hammerton

Cremation in India, c1890. Artist: Gillot
Cremation in India, c1890. Illustration from Iles Andaman et Ceylan, Moeurs et Coutumes, (a work on the customs and costume of the Andaman Islands and Ceylon), by L Boulanger, (Paris, c1890)

Behanzin, King of Dahomey, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Behanzin, King of Dahomey, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 23rd April 1892

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