scarf; selendang

Cloth for selendang with uncut circular warp echoing design of a man's selimut panel, with three vertical bands of ikat in pale reddish brown and cream, divided and bounded by four striped vertical bands with a woven warp pattern in black and white with two very narrow bands of similar decoration to either side, all set in stripes in the warp of dull gold, russet, grey and pale reddish brown. Dyed with morinda. Amarasi region, West Timor, Indonesia. See Fig VIA-2 in Yeager and Jacobsen. (AF48.2)

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2008.175
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 2310 mm x 460 mm
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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