This loin cloth is made from indigo-dyed woven cotton with appliqué bands along edges.It is part of a set of garments worn by the Ede, an Austronesian-speaking group who live in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The garments also include a man's shirt and a rare headcloth. The Ede (also known as Rade) live in Vietnam's highland provinces of Dak Lak, southern Gia Lai, and western parts of Khanh Hoa and Phu Yen. The Ede language belongs to the Malay-Polynesian group.The garments also include a man's shirt, a woman's blouse, a wrap-around skirt and a rare hood-like headcloth. Complete sets of these garments are rare. The Rade or Ede belongs to the Cham group who settled in the Hue region in the north and Ninh Thuan province in the south of Vietnam in the early centuries of BCE. The Mthur are a sub group of Ede.
