Subject: datu chief
Setting: Spanish, American wars, Mindanao-Sulu 1851-1913
Object: malong sarong
* International Museum of Folk Art
"Skirt, sarong
Mindanao Island, Philippines
20th century
abaca fiber ...
Abaca, also called Manila hemp, comes from the stalk of a type of banana plant. The patterns on both the sarong and the weaving on the loom were made by dyeing the warp yarn before weaving, a process known as ikat."
* Museo Nacional de Antropologia > Filipinas
