TWO CEREMONIAL CLOTHS (HINGGIS)

Description:

Indonesia, Sumba/possibly Sumatra, 20th c.
L. 202-210 cm
Two Ikat textiles. a) Ceremonial cloth (hinggi) for men. Sewn together from two panels. Cotton, dyed in multicolored warp ikat large ancestor figures with heads above. Pretext band and warp fringes intact. b) Ceremonial cloth. Cotton, multicolored warp ikat with blue and red. Original fringes intact.
From an old North German private collection, assembled between the 1970s and 1980s