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Rare antique Mandaya abaca ikat cloth browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Southeast Asian:Textiles:Pre 1920: item # 735306 Please refer to our stock # MDY004 when inquiring.
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| A rare antique Mandaya abaca (banana plant fiber) ikat tube skirt (called “linaog”), which has been opened, from the Mandaya people of southeastern Mindanao, Philippines circa the early 1900s. This cloth, made of two similar panels sewn together on the selvedge, has the famous Mandaya textile design repertoire of a stylized human (“utaw”) and crocodile (“buaya”), with intervening geometric and root-like motifs. Two smaller bands, flanking the main patterned band on the right and left, echo the main pattern with similar human-crocodile motifs. The cloth measures 54 x 59 inches, and is in very good condition; a couple of very tiny tears have been locally well-darned so as to be almost non-noticeable. The naturally dyed red maroon (most likely from morinda) and black (most likely from iron-rich mud) colors are still very vivid. Refer to the exhibition catalog,“From the Rainbow’s Varied Hue- Textiles of the Southern Philippines", edited by Roy W. Hamilton, page 51 for a similarly designed Mandaya cloth. | ||
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