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216 Timor, West Timor
Beti naek (men's wrap) 
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| Locale: | Biboki, Insana district. |
| Period: | 1950-1960 |
| Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, medium |
| Technique: | Warp ikat |
| Panels: | 2 |
| Size: | 112 x 197 cm (3' 8" x 6' 5") LW: 1.76 |
| Weight: | 770 g (27.2 oz), 349 g/m2 (1.14 oz/ft2) |
| Design: | Six fairly wide ikated bands with lozenge-shaped motif that probably represents a form of kaif, representative of links with the ancestors; numerous narrow stripes with small ikated snaking and dotted patterns. The overall tonality a pale raspberry red. |
| Comment: | Vintage Biboki beti, made with traditional methods only. While commercial yarns and chemical dyes were adopted in Biboki fairly early on, this piece is 'full asli': made of hand spun yarns, using vegetable dyes. As the microphotography shows, this cloth was made with morinda, rather than indigo weft, a Biboki hallmark. Like many Timor ikat textiles it tapers little towards one end. Twisted fringes. Faint smell of skatol confirms advanced age. Excellent state of preservation. |
| Background: | Chapters on Timor and West Timor. |
| Exhibited: | Timor: Totems and Tokens, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, 2019/20. |
| Published: | Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago, 2018. Timor: Totems and Tokens, 2019.
Ikat Textiles of Timor: Indonesian and Timor-Leste, 2025. |
| Compare: | 176 177 150 370 |
| Sources: | Similar to beti in Khan Majlis, Woven Messages, Fig. 270. Same colouration and same number of ikated bands, but slightly different motifs. |
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