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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9497112, member: 2844"]It is beautiful, but I also think it is a later one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style is pasisiran, or coastal, and in Lampung predominant blue was used for secular occasions, mainly red for sacred ritual.</p><p>Pasir or pasisir means sand or sandy beach.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have heard tampans referred to as 'witness cloths', meaning their purpose was to witness a ritual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9497112, member: 2844"]It is beautiful, but I also think it is a later one. The style is pasisiran, or coastal, and in Lampung predominant blue was used for secular occasions, mainly red for sacred ritual. Pasir or pasisir means sand or sandy beach. I have heard tampans referred to as 'witness cloths', meaning their purpose was to witness a ritual.[/QUOTE]
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