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Scarf3511/8

Maroon scarf (selendang) with fringe on ends. Eleven decorated bands across length. Centre band is dark red, trimmed with white stripes, with dark orange dashes through centre. From each side of centre band the patterns are identical. From centre outward bands are: maroon with repeating dark orange crosses, sun-like motifs, butterfly-like motifs, geometric and linear motifs; dark red, trimmed with dark blue stripes, with dark orange dashes through centre; dark orange triangles on maroon, trimmed with yellow stripe; dark red, trimmed with black stripes, with dark orange dashes through centre; and dark purple with dark blue vertical stripes. Fringe along left side is twisted; fringe along right is loose.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
fibre and vegetable dye
Made in
Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3511/9

Dark red scarf (selendang) with fringe on ends. Top and bottom edges of scarf have a dark maroon border, with light orange dashes throughout. Repeating pattern of pointed ovals, filled with floral and linear motifs, through centre of scarf. Ovals are connected by dots. Negative space, between ovals and border, filled with identical floral and linear designs. Border on both ends, consisting of three vertical bands. Outer and inner bands have a dot motif; centre band has a repeating triangle motif. All designs are done in red-brown and dark orange. Fringe on ends are tied into bundles with plant fibre; six bundles on left edge, five on right.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
fibre, dye and plant fibre
Made in
Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Container2960/40 a-b

Small lime bottle with a small stopper carved into a head. The bottle is made of bone, hollowed on the inside. The mouth of the bottle is oblong in shape, sitting slightly off centre. The bottle widens toward the base. The body is decorated with small incised triangles that make up a repeating figurative motif. Part ‘b’ is the bottle stopper or lid, carved into the shape of a human head and neck. The forehead is long, nose and ears prominent. The eyes are lightly carved circles, and the mouth a carved line. A small tuft if hair is carved into the top of the head. A hole is bored through the neck and filled with a small red bead at back. The surface is shiny.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
bone and plastic ?
Made in
West Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt2787/7

Women's embroidered tube skirt (lau pahudu). The naturally-dyed, handspun cotton was hand loomed on s back-strap loom in a continuous supplementary warp weave. Made of two different pieces of fabric hand-sewn together at the waist, the bottom red tube portion with side seam has several large, white, emboidered ancestor figure motifs framed by horizontal bands of yellow and brown, while the upper multi darted bodice has horizontal stripes of black, and red with white zigzag motifs. Two metal hooks with thread eyes close the side opening of the bodice.

Culture
Sumbanese
Material
metal, cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
Sumba, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Waist Cloth2787/2

Men's waist cloth in hand spun, orange, yellow, cream and brown natural dyed cotton. Two warp faced panels, stitched together with red thread in a vertical seam, have a warp ikat pattern and stripes with hook and key geometric patterns in the warp. The fringe at both ends is two-ply ends, with alternating loose warps.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
West Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoulder Cloth2787/19

Hand loomed cotton selèndang or shoulder cloth. Woven with a warp ikat technique, the two bands of ivory coloured design on the brown fringed cloth are separated by three stripes of yellow, green and pink.

Culture
Savunese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Savu, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt2787/8

Women's tube skirt, predominantly blue (indigo), and red (morinda citrifolia). Hand loomed on backstrap loom with continuous warp. Three panels of cloth, stitiched together length-wise to form a large square, are then hand sewn together to form a tube skirt with side seam.

Culture
Rotinese
Material
cotton fibre, indigo dye and morinda citrifolium dye
Made in
Roti, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt2787/5

Tube skirt (ei) hand loomed on back-strap loom with continuous warp. Two identical panels of handspun cotton, patterned in red, brown, black, green and beige, have been joined together horizontally with large hand stitches, then sewn together to form a tube skirt with one thick side seam and a thick band of black at top and bottom.

Culture
Savunese
Material
cotton fibre and natural dye
Made in
Savu, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoulder Cloth2787/3

Rectangular cloth with multi-coloured orange stripes and a thicker centre stripe of yellow and black motifs. Both short ends have a twisted fringe.

Culture
Atoni
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
West Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Waist Cloth2787/1

Men's waist cloth made up of four panels of warp faced cloth stitched together vertically with hems at each end on opposing sides. The rust-red, cream and brown of the hand spun cotton warp ikat patterns are natural dye while the narrow blue and green supplementary warps are commercial dye and mercerized cotton.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
cotton fibre, natural dye and synthetic dye
Made in
West Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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