Tassel Skirt or Rumbai Skirt

 

Papuan women wear traditional clothes and wave the red and white flag as they welcome President Joko Widodo and his entourage in Jayapura, Papua, 9 May 2015. ((AFP Photo / Romeo Gacad))

Forms of tassels are used as skirts by women on the coast and inland central mountains. Tassel wah (skirt) is made of wood fiber or grass in remote areas is still used.

The ethnic groups that use tassels are Sentani, Tobati, Enjros, Nafri, Biak Numfor, or Yapen, Papua and West Papua Province

A tassel skirt made of knitted sago leaves as a subordinate and a head covering made of palm fiber hair, cassava feathers, and woven sago leaves.

The sago leaves used to make tassel skirts are taken from the forest. Then cut, after cutting the sago leaves are dried in the sun to dry or the sago leaves turn white, which means that the sago leaves are dry.

This dried sago leaf will be used as the main ingredient in making a tassel skirt. Dried sago leaves will be woven in such a way to form Ramn.

How to wear it by wrapping it around the waist and tied with a knot.

Now tassel skirts are not only worn by women, men also wear them when there are certain events.

Tassel skirts made from dried sago leaves are worn by women.