Object Number | 2015-13-1 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Indonesia | Sumba |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Cotton | Mollusk Shell |
Description | Cotton cloth, homespun, dyed black. Sewn into tube, with fringe along lower half of one side seam. Decorated with shell beads: two male figures on either side of a skull tree, a pair of animals below and a pair of small birds above. The top is undecorated (to be folded over). Such skirts are worn ceremonially and also used as valuables, typically as a gift to the bride as part of the wedding ceremony. |
Height | 135.5 cm |
Width | 64 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Robert and Marilyn Forney, 2015 |
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