Cloth for men

Cloth used as a hip or shoulder cloth by men.\The native name for this cloth, 'hinggi kombu' is a compound of 'hinggi' , shoulder cloth, and 'kombu', which is both the name of the dyeing process and the rust red dye extracted from the roots of the kombu tree (Museum voor Volkenkunde Rotterdam, 1966:17).\The motifs on this cloth include geometric, floral, horses, a bull, snakes, birds and 'mamuli' …