Woman’s warp-faced cotton tube skirt, kain indu’, or kain kebat, in handwoven cotton cloth coloured with natural and chemical dyes. It has a broad main panel divided into six bands of an ikat design, each flanked by a band containing plain stripes in several colours. This main panel also flanked on each side by a band of narrow stripes, the outermost in plain white, red, yellow, and green. The warp ends are hand-stitched together to form a tube, so that when worn the stripes would have become horizontal bands. The ikat designs are in beige against a reddish brown and dark brown ground. There is a wide band near each selvedge in dark brown. Undup Iban, Sarawak.
woman's garment also used for carrying special things on ceremonial occasions
