Hip Cloth Item Number: 3511/11 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Decorated rectangular hip cloth (beti naek) with braided fringe on ends. Designs divided into three wide panels. Top and bottom panels are red and decorated with thin stripes. Stripes are an assortment of plain and dotted lines; done in blue-grey, dark blue, white, pink, yellow, dark green and dark purple. Centre panel is dark brown with white animal motifs across it. Dark orange geometric and linear designs throughout animals. Gap between designs in centre of panel, forming a horizontal dark brown line. Animals consist of birds, frogs(?) and reptiles (?). Small, yellow vertical stripes border top and bottom edges.
Man's wrap, or hip cloth.
Purchased by the donor in a market in Soe, West Timor, in September 1989.
Handwoven ikat textile; fibre dyed using local vegetable dyes. 3 pieces sewn together. Centre strip uses supplementary weft technique (pa'uf) for the animal pattern, flanked by panels of narrow ikat stripes.