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Rongkong2
Tana Toraja2
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sarong
Textile

sarong

late 20th Century

This piece is in a tubular shape, usually worn as sarung (or sarong), a garment consisting of a long piece of cloth worn wrapped around the body and tucked at the waist or under the arms. The textile ...

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ikat sarung
Textile

ikat sarung

late 20th Century

This is a sarung in green and cream check design with a pink, grey and yellow geometric ikat design, and uniformally frayed edges. The material may be a rough silk.

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Lotong boko
Textile

Lotong boko

late 19th Century

A Lotong boko batik made up of three large white rectangular panels containing many small grey ovals and larger red ovals. The warp edges of each panel are bordered with three narrow rows in white and...

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straw hat
Textile

straw hat

late 20th Century

A straw pillbox hat [songkok?], intended for daily wear by Muslim men. It is light brown with dark brown bands and triangular/arrow patterning in gold plastic metallic thread. There is a wooden band i...

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straw hat
Textile

straw hat

late 20th Century

A straw pillbox hat [songkok?], intended for daily wear by Muslim men. It is black with supplementary weft bands of triangular/arrow patterning in gold plastic metallic thread. It has a light brown ri...

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straw hat
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straw hat

late 20th Century

A straw pillbox hat [songkok?], intended for daily wear by Muslim men. It is light brown with dark brown bands and a circular centrepiece on top, also in gold thread. It has additional supplementary w...

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straw hat
Textile

straw hat

late 20th Century

A straw pillbox hat [songkok?], intended for daily wear by Muslim men. It is light brown with dark brown bands and triangular/arrow patterning in gold plastic metallic thread. There is a wooden band i...

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batik Makassar
Textile

batik Makassar

late 20th century - early 21st century

A black and white batik with an overall repeat positive and negative design including diamonds and crosses, which may be a variation on tumpal design.

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mau
Textile

mau

late 20th Century

A multicoloured striped mau woven using the Indonesian Tenun technique of weaving different colours of threads. There is a central black panel with rows of supplementary weft of linked flowers. These ...

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kain
Textile

weave

late 20th - early 21st Century

A cotton weave with multicoloured stripes, mainly yellow, red, green, black and white with black warp borders, and fringing.

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warp ikat blanket
Textile

warp ikat blanket

c. 1982

A warp ikat blanket (or pori lonjong) from Komba Village, Rongkong (a remote village in the mountains between Toraja and Central Sulawesi). It is red, blue, green, brown, and white, and there are vari...

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ikat rug
Textile

ikat rug

late 20th Century

An ikat rug with a Christian theme, depicting eight figures and crosses in a zigzag border, in red, natural (undyed) and indigo. There are fringes on both ends. It is probable that this piece comes fr...

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