本館收藏的卑南族的裙有分為男用及女用兩種 The museum has skirts worn by men and women in its collection. The one worn by men is the butan worn by young men. The young men would have a different kind of skirt for every year of their age. In the two years of the malaneka period they would wear a black skirt; in the third year they would wear a flower pattern edged cloth which would be wrapped around the lower body sarong style. In the first year of the malatawan period, they would wear a blue flower pattern edged cloth skirt. In the second year this would have a white edge. When they entered warrior age they would wear a plain blue cloth. Women had three kinds of skirt: one was the dubil that was worn before the age of 13. After the age of 13 they would also wear a knee length labit over the dubil. Older women would wear a sugun wraparound skirt over their blue or black three quarter length trousers. |