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Two fragments of hand woven, weft ikat, cotton cloth. Both have the same dark brown border and similar coloured motifs in gold, green and white; (a) with petalled flowers, (b) with leaves.
Ceremonial altar cloth in shades of brown and copper-gold. Black cotton warp, bronze metallic filament weft. Continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft with silk single filament yarn. Adat house motif, with buffalo heads.
Ceremonial women's wrap skirt. The two panels of hand dyed purple silk, hand-loomed with a discontinuous warp, are stitched together at a horizontal seam that runs across the middle of the skirt. The continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft of silver thread creates a band of triangular temple-like motifs along the bottom and one side edge of the skirt and several lines of silver stars within the body of the fabric.
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.
Women's inner cloth of mercerized commercial cotton. Warp faced cloth has multi-coloured stripes of purple, gold, burgundy, blue, green and white and ends are twisted into a two-ply knotted fringe.
Ceremonial cloth of handspun cotton, natural dyes, predominately red. Warp faced cloth, warp ikat is a cream-coloured chevron motif. Twined ends with fringe.
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.
Square cloth of natural linen hand loomed on a multi-harness loom. The woven patterns of the three light biege shades of linen fibres include a central ground of diamond motifs framed by a thick band of herringbone. A thin line of red stretches across all four sides, near the edges. Two tags with red stitched names are sewn into a back corner; VAN HOOGSTRATEN is machine stitched, MEES is handstitched.
Paisley wool shawl. Square of dark brown wool has a thick border of printed paisley motifs in gold, red, and blue. Two paisley tear-drop motifs are placed at opposing corners. The ends are left loose and fringed. Three small rectangles of black silk are hand stitched onto one edge of undersurface, at sides and centre.
Turquoise silk cloth with an overlaid purple centre panel and a looping gold filament border stitched on around the edge. The top surface of the runner-like cloth is covered with a decorative hand embroidery of mixed gold and copper filaments attached in a couching-technique known as stumping, with the resultant cross hatching of the ivory coloured thread covering the under surface. Cloth has long twined strands that hang out beneath metal fringe at both ends.