Title
Man's mantle
Year/Period
Mid-20th century
Region
Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Eastern Indonesian Archipelago
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 239.0 x 145.5 cm
Accession No.
2018-00930
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
This ceremonial blanket is reputed to have come from the Rajah of Kefamenanu in North Central West Timor. It is a finely woven warp ikat cloth with rows of aniline dyed yellow, green, pink and blue threads that would have been imported from Europe. This would have made this a valuable and prestigious cloth. These threads are interspersed between rows of finely tied warp ikat bands naturally dyed in indigo and red with an overdyed purplish deep blue.
