Woman's Tube Skirt

Name/Title

Woman's Tube Skirt

Entry/Object ID

2024.4.18

Description

A four-panel cotton tube skirt with dark indigo ground, warp ikat band and narrow bands of warp-float patterning in red, green, orange, and red. Small diamond motifs in supplementary-weft wrapping technique (buna) decorate both end of the skirt.

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

1st half of 20th Century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Island

Timor

Country

Indonesia

Notes

Atambua

Dimensions

Width

56 cm

Length

188 cm

Material

Cotton

Provenance

Notes

Acquired 1993 Atambua area Timor