Title
Headcloth
Year/Period
First half of the 20th century
Region
Lake Toba, Batak, North Sumatra
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 89.0 x 280.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00981
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
This cloth in deep indigo blue with white stripes has three bands of ikatted patterning across the body of the cloth. It would have been known as a surisuri si tolu tuho. It was usually worn as a shoulder cloth by Batak women. Such cloths were most likely woven in the Toba region but were known and traded to other parts of the Batak homelands in North Sumatra.
