Woman's Tube Skirt

Textile

Tracing Patterns Foundation

Name/Title

Woman's Tube Skirt

Entry/Object ID

2024.4.19

Description

A four-panel cotton tube skirt in dark, with thin blue, green, purple bands and brown-and-beige ikat. Both ends of the skirt are decorated with small flower patterns in supplementary-weft wrapping (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

1st half of 20th Century

Textile Details

Technique

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

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Island

Timor

Country

Indonesia

Dimensions

Width

66 cm

Length

170 cm

Material

Cotton

Provenance

Notes

Acquired 1993 Atambua area