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>Costume Studies
>>1902 Moro datu
>>>costume
>>>>sarong
Subjectdatu chief
CultureMoro
Setting: Spanish, American wars, Mindanao-Sulu 1851-1913
Objectmalong 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