Name/Title
Woman’s Tube Skirt.Entry/Object ID
2024.4.39Description
A four-panel tube skirt. The middle two panels are decorated with polychrome stripes and blue-and-white ikat bands. The ends panels have black ground with star motifs in supplementary-weft wrapping technique (buna).Acquisition
Accession
2024.4Source or Donor
Teresa Lemon SheproCredit Line
Gift of Teresa Lemon SheproMade/Created
Time Period
2nd half of 20th CenturyTextile Details
Technique
Plain Weave, Warp Ikat, Supplementary-Weft Wrapping (Buna)Ethnography
Cultural Region
Island
TimorCountry
IndonesiaProvenance
Notes
Acquired 1993 in Betun area, now Malaka Regency, Timor, Tetun people