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."
