selendang

Selendang echoing design of man's selimut panel, with three vertical bands of ikat in very dark brown and morinda against cream, divided and bounded by four striped vertical bands of narrow brown and cream ikat stripes against a morinda ground edged by plain morinda, white and dark brown stripes. The ikat design in the three main panels consists of repeated motifs of a variant of the flying bird motif, with to either side cream triangles with morinda dots. Natural dyes. 82 x 115 cm.West Timor, Indonesia. (AF5) See Ruth M. Yeager and Mark Ivan Jacobson 1996: Traditional Textiles of West Timor.

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MUSEUM NUMBER
2008.165
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 2680 mm x 475 mm
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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