Woman's Tube Skirt (Tais Feto)

Name/Title

Woman's Tube Skirt (Tais Feto)

Entry/Object ID

2024.4.4

Description

A three-panel tube skirt in rough cotton. It has a deep blue/ black ground with seven rows of human figures and diamond motifs in supplementary-weft wrapping (buna). Similar piece, photo #206 page 312 in “Textiles of Western Timor” Yeager and Jacobson, description on 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

2024.4

Source or Donor

Teresa Lemon Shepro

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Teresa Lemon Shepro

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Time Period

2nd half of 20th Century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Island

Timor

Country

Indonesia

Culture/Tribe

Tetum

Notes

Malaka/Besikama

Dimensions

Width

58 cm

Length

123 cm

Material

Cotton

Condition

Overall Condition

Good condition

Provenance

Notes

Acquired 1994, Leo Shop, Denpasar, Indonesia