Textile Item Number: 3427/3 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Large textile composed of three pieces of fabric, stitched together down the width, creating a large, rectangular textile with bilaterally symmetrical imagery. Wide middle panel has dark brown-black background with geometric and zoomorphic designs, flanked by side panels decorated with stripes, and central bands with intricate motifs in light brown on dark brown-black. There is a strip of fabric sewn across the back of the top of the textile with pin holes in it. Both sides fringed.

Narrative

Tag says "Sumbawa Ikat Weave Natural Dyes".