Title
Shouldercloth
Year/Period
First half of the 20th century
Region
Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Eastern Indonesian Archipelago
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 185.0 x 88.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00954
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
This man’s shouldercloth has a plain white centrefield with side panels of indigo and red thread woven using a type of warp float technique known locally as sotis. Such cloths were made by the Atoin Meto peoples from Amanuban in the realm of Sonbai, West Timor.
