Long narrow cream barkcloth intended as a loincloth. The textile is decorated with black and brown pigment and cut fringing at both longer sides. At one shorter end the textile has veen cut to create a dentate edge. The decoration consists of rectangular areas with 2 patterns. One consists of solidly coloured stripes separrated by sets of narrow dotted stripes. The other contains the same patterns, but also at least one stripe crossed by sets of 5 diagonals. These alternate inpart of the cloth, but the majority contains the latter pattern.
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