Sarong Item Number: 3511/5 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Sarong with warp threads uncut, forming a continuous looped textile. Decorated with four horizontal bands. Black stripes, with assortment of coloured lines, dashes and curvilinear motifs, in between each band. From top to bottom bands are: maroon with white cross-like designs inside repeating rectangles, rectangles made up of curvilinear motifs; maroon with white cross-like designs inside repeating rectangles, rectangles made up of curvilinear motifs; black with white oval-like shapes in centre and maroon triangles along edges, shapes filled with floral and curvilinear motifs; and maroon with white semi-circles along edges, made up of curvilinear motifs, and geometric motifs through the centre. Zigzag design decorates left side of all stripes and bands; top and bottom edges are black. White tag on back.
Unused and unsewn sarong. 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. Unsewn; warp threads are still uncut so that they form a continuous loop.
Purchased by the donor in the Kelimutu area, on Flores Island, in September 1989.