Woman's Tube Skirt (Tais Feto)
Name/Title
Woman's Tube Skirt (Tais Feto)Entry/Object ID
2024.4.2Description
A three-panel cotton tube skirt from Timor, with deep indigo color background and six rows of humans and lizards in supplementary-weft wrapping technique (buna). Similar piece, photo #206, page 312 in “Textiles of Western Timor” Yeager and Jacobson, description page 210. Also attributed specifically to Ayotupas area in “Traditional Indonesian Textiles” by John Gillow, photo 119. The areas are adjacent and the districts have been renamed and divisions changed by the government throughout the years.Acquisition
Accession
2024.4Source or Donor
Teresa Lemon SheproCredit Line
Gift of Teresa Lemon SheproMade/Created
Artist
Unknown MakerTime Period
2nd half of 20th CenturyTextile Details
Technique
Plain Weave, Supplementary-Weft Wrapping (Buna)Ethnography
Cultural Region
Island
TimorCountry
IndonesiaCulture/Tribe
Tetum