Sarong Item Number: 3511/3 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Sarong with sides sewn together, forming a rectangular tube skirt. Decorated with nineteen horizontal bands; assortment of coloured stripes, dashes and curvilinear motifs in between each band. Centre band is brown with yellow stitches in middle. From each side of centre band the patterns are identical. From centre outward bands are: black with white snowflake-like motif; plain brown; black with white snowflake-like motif; brown with white triangles made of curvilinear motifs; black with white sun-like motif; black with white oval-like shapes in centre and maroon triangles along edges, shapes filled with floral and curvilinear motifs; black with white sun-like motif; brown with white triangles made of curvilinear motifs; and black with white sun-like motif. Triangle designs, with cross-like protrusions at tops, decorate left sides of bands. White tag on back.
Used sarong, made from 2 pieces. Sarongs can be worn in several ways, as a skirt, or a dress over one shoulder, etc.
Handwoven ikat textile; fibres dyed using local vegetable dyes.
Purchased by the donor in the Kelimutu area, on Flores Island, in September 1989.