Toraja Sarita or Festival Banner

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The ‘sarita,’ a distinctive type of sacred textile (maa’) amongst the Toraja people of Sulawesi, were used in various ways: they were flown from tall bamboo poles before the house of a deceased person, or wrapped around the head of the wooden effigy representing the dead. The sarita is also technically significant because the designs were obtained by a resist process that must have resembled batik.