DepartmentTextiles-Asia
Selimut
NameMan's lower garment, hip wrap, or shawl
Place madeNusa Tenggara Timur, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
MediumCotton, natural and chemical dyes
DimensionsOverall: 82 11/16 x 41 5/16 in. (210 x 105 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter Castine
Object numberA.2010.56.69
DescriptionLoosely woven medium weight fringed texile of two panels. Has repeated large and small bluish to pinkish white male figures arranged in alternating directions on both sides of the central area, the large figures with birds in hands, the smaller with "trays" over blue gray ground, which "fades" to purplish at ends. Side are wide, striped bands in chemical red, yellow, pink, orange, purple and white on blue. Chain stitched ends in purplish blue and orange. Loosely twisted hanks of fringe, shorter in central area than near edge bands.
Late 19th - early 20th century
1980
