Garment; waist or shoulder cloth; designs include horses, prancing horse-like creatures, eight-pointed stars and inscription; narrow end bands; design bands have alternating red and brown grounds at one end and indigo and white ground at opposite end; specimen has been worn; two loom widths of cotton warp ikart; indigo, white, brown, red. Man;s garment worn with pants or draped across the shoulders. Woven by women. Worn by the elite classes only on special occasions. Also serve as elements in ritual gift exchange system that is part of the social, economic and religious life of East Sumba. Width 1.9 m. Length 2.44 m. not including fringe.
Donor:
Grace Relfe, Kathy Ashe, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Sumba, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)