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Article: Cut From Obama's Mother's Cloth
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- The Washington Post
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- August 8, 2009
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They arrived at the Textile Museum on July 31 in a suitcase,
large pieces of Javanese batik-patterned cloth that Ann Dunham
purchased in the 1960s. Dunham was then living in Jakarta with her
second husband and her young children, Maya Soetoro-Ng and Barack
Obama.
And now 16 of these hand-designed swaths of woven cloth are
almost ready for display at the museum in Northwest Washington. The
exhibit, which opens Sunday and runs through Aug. 23, marks the
collection's sixth and final stop in a national tour, co-organized
by the Indonesian Embassy and Soetoro-Ng, who arrived Friday in
D.C. After Dunham's death in 1995, it was Soetoro-Ng who held on to
her mother's batik collection.
The ...