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The gallery displays 21of the more than 60 cloths in our collection, made available by five donors. We will continue to add more cloths, and hope to display pieces from all districts of East Timor.

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(Tais mane means "man's cloth", Tais feto means "woman's cloth" and
Selanda means "sash" and may be worn by either a man or a woman)

Tais mane Oecussi	Tais mane Oecussi	Tais mane Los Palos	Tais feto Bobonaro	Tais mane Suai
Tais feto Suai	Tais mane Oecussi	Tais mane Oecussi	Tais mane Suai	Tais mane Oecussi
Tais feto Suai

 

Tim Babcock has kindly made the next 10 pieces available for display. Tim is Canadian, with a PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University (Southeast Asia program), based on field research in North Sulawesi (1973-75), who has worked for over 20 years in Indonesia (largely dealing with Sulawesi) on a variety of development assistance projects in the area of rural and regional development and environmental management. Tim has supplied personal notes for each piece. He, and the Museum, would be pleased to have comments and/or corrections. Please email the Museum at admin@etimortais.org. Sue Potter of Jakarta took the photos.

Tais mane Suai	Tais feto Ainaro	Burial shroud Bobonaro ??	Tais mane Ainaro	Tais mane Suai
Tais mane Ermera	Tais feto Bobonaro ??	Tais mano Los Palos	Tais mane Oecussi	Tais feto Los Palos

If you have cloths that you are willing to make available to the Museum, please read our Support the Museum page.

If you have a comment on our assessment of any of the information about a cloth, please email us

Updated: 21Jun2002