Description
Rare 19th C. Abaca Fiber Ceremonial Cloth, Mindanao: Ikat ceremonial tube cloth, "dagmay", decorated with 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....