Sali clothes or Sali shirt of Papua


Papuan Girls wearing Sali Shirt


In Central Mountains of Papua province, to recognize a girl who is single or married, it can be identified by the clothes she wears. Sali's clothes are clothes that only girls can wear. This Sali shirt can be used to carry out daily activities. Married women are not allowed to wear this traditional dress.

You would not have guessed that these clothes were made from selected tree bark or dried sago leaves. One of the criteria is that the bark of the tree must be brown so that the resulting clothes look perfect, attractive, and pleasing to the eye. Because at first glance, these traditional clothes look like stitched cloth when worn by Papuan girls.

Sali clothes are worn only for Papuan girls. This Sali shirt is made from tree bark with a very complicated process so that it produces a solid brown color.

Sali is used by wrapping it around the body and arranged so that the inside is longer than the outside.

Papuan Girls wearing Sali shirt in a Cultural Festival



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