Traditional Bark Clothes

Bark Clothes of Bada and Napoe tribes

bark clothes is usually found from neolithic age, but until now still there much tribes in Celebes, Indonesia who made it and used it. one of that tribe is  Bada tribe in Central Celebes the one of tribe I have visited before.the proces of making the bark clothes using a dark hard stone. so the rough bark will be beaten until smooth using the stone. then the bark that has been refined will be sewn using natural yarns of the tree and the buttons using the seeds from the fruit of the tree. bellow I'll attach the picture of bark clothes from Bada and Napoe tribe.

Bark clotes which is not in process yet

The stone using in process to beating the rough bark