Cotton indigo-dyed sewn tube skirt, or 'sarung', for a woman, decorated with hand-drawn batik motifs including birds on a gold-coloured ground achieved by dyeing with with lembato wood before waxing, then dyeing in indigo. It is formed of two lengths sewn together horizontally.
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