Subject: datu chief
Setting: Spanish, American wars, Mindanao-Sulu 1851-1913
Object: malong sarong
International Museum of Folk Art *
"Skirt, sarong Mindanao Island, Philippines 20th century abaca fiber
... Abaca,
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."
