Title
Waist tie or sash
Year/Period
First half of the 20th century
Region
Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 30.5 x 251.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00983
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
The Sadan Toraja of central Sulawesi wore these long, narrow cloths as a loincloth or sash and also hung them as decorative banners in funerary ceremonies. They are rare examples of the use of the supplementary weft technique among the Toraja.
