Flores Indonesian unsewn cotton sarong tube (169 x 132cm)

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169 x 132cm

What was a sarong joined tube skirt has been undone and opened out to form a square cloth. Woven in Ende on the southern coast of the east Indonesian island of Flores.

• circa 1980s

CF Hamilton, R., ed. (1994) Gift of the Cotton Maiden. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. Similar examples appear on page 133.

Ref. 16234