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312 Timor, West Timor
Mau naek (men's wrap)  
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| Locale: | Ayotupus region of Amanatun Utara - probably Bokong, close to Sambet where the King has his ancestral home, the heart of Ayotupus |
| Period: | Early 20th c. |
| Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, fine, no plying |
| Technique: | Warp ikat |
| Panels: | 3 |
| Size: | 104 x 172 cm (3' 4" x 5' 7") LW: 1.65 |
| Weight: | 955 g (33.7 oz), 534 g/m2 (1.75 oz/ft2) |
| Design: | Central panel with large interlocking kaif motifs, standing for connection to the ancestors, belonging. Side panels each contain one ikated band with meandering motif and multiple ikated stripes with meandering or stippled patterns. |
| Comment: | Archetypical Amanatun men's wrap, more specifically Ayotupus, known for its fine ikat. The drawing was done with two yarns running in parallel. As the bindings were placed on two warp beds simultaneously (one for each panel), both doubled over in the middle, the ikating was done on sets of merely eight yarns. All hand-spun, natural dyes. A faint skatol smell of decomposing indigo attests to its advanced age. |
| Background: | Chapters on Timor and West Timor. |
| Exhibited: | Timor: Totems and Tokens, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, 2019/20. |
| Published: | Timor: Totems and Tokens, 2019.
Ikat Textiles of Timor: Indonesian and Timor-Leste, 2025. |
| Compare: | 112 013 282 181 324 |
| Sources: | Very similar to mau in Yeager and Jacobson, Textiles of Western Timor, Plate 52, but probably decades older. |
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