There is now a page live on the main tti website on the collection of Toba Batak textiles that I refer to above. The body of material on the collection and the family history behind it is still very much 'work in progress', however, it is very much current work in progress!
A summary of the collection can be see at
http://www.tribaltextiles.info/articles ... ection.htm and the thumbnails link to larger photos. In the case of a couple of the ulos there are links to other material where the textiles can be seen being worn at significant family ceremonies. In particular see the sadum
http://www.tribaltextiles.info/articles ... l/VT04.htm woven by Ernestina br. Hutagalung (who can be seen above at the end of her life in the 1980s) in the first decade of the 20th Century, probably when she was between 14-18 years old, a period before marriage known as namarbaju.
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Pamela
http://www.tribaltextiles.infoon-line tribal textiles resource