Woman’s Tube Skirt.

Name/Title

Woman’s Tube Skirt.

Entry/Object ID

2024.4.39

Description

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

2024.4

Source or Donor

Teresa Lemon Shepro

Credit Line

Gift of Teresa Lemon Shepro

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown Maker

Time Period

2nd half of 20th Century

Textile Details

Technique

Plain Weave, Warp Ikat, Supplementary-Weft Wrapping (Buna)

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Island

Timor

Country

Indonesia

Culture/Tribe

Tetum

Dimensions

Width

58 cm

Length

163 cm

Material

Cotton

Provenance

Notes

Acquired 1993 in Betun area, now Malaka Regency, Timor, Tetun people