- Tjihapit Cloth
This was a toilet tidy made in the Tjihapit women’s and children’s camp by my mother for my grandmother on the occasion of her seventieth birthday (18 October 1943) . We were forced to use the Japanese calendar as you may see from the embroidered date.
This type of article became essential for keeping one’s posessions in some order, as space within homes became too small to accommodate furniture (which in any case was likely to be needed by the communal kitchen (dapur) for fuel. This was made from an old shirt. In the Museon, a museum dedicated to war-time artifacts many more such articles are on display.
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