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Skirt

Object Number:87-8-12
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Tobaku
Provenience: Sulawesi
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Bark Cloth
Cotton
Length: 75 cm
Width: 43 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Lorraine V. Aragon, 1987
Other Number:38 - Other Number

Description

Bark cloth skirt (topi'). Heavy dark brown barkcloth, pleated, with two tiers. White cotton waistband (hidden under first tier). Also four narrow strips of the same barkcloth (remnants from cutting of skirt). From nunu lewue (Ficus annulata) (see samples 87-8-26/27).

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