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IKAT FROM SERMATA, INDONESIA


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  • 267 SERMATA
    Tais (sarong). Warp ikat, discontinuous supplementary weft and nassa shell appliqué.. 19th c. Note that the Sermata provenance is speculative, see below. .
  • 278 SERMATA
    Sarong. Warp ikat. Late colonial. Sermata (the most likely of three possible origins, the others being Babar and Luang).


Sermata


Sermata is the chief island in the group often referred to as the Sermata Islands, which includes Luang. As in these days Luang is vastly more important than Sermata, where little ikat was done, Luang is not ranked under Sermata but given a separate entry. The fact that the Dutch called the whole region after Sermata, 'Sermata Eilanden', can only indicate that in colonial times it had a fair amount of importance, an assumption which contracts with Sermata's relative lack of presence in the known material culture of the southern Moluccas, and suggests that its culture disappeared with hardly a trace. According to Van Vuuren, women on Sermata often ordered ikat cloth made to order from Babar, Tanimbar or indeed Luang.

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Literature

As yet there is no monograph on the ikat textiles of the Sermata Islands, or even of the Southern Moluccas as a group. Please inform us if you know of one published. Interesting articles are Nico de Jonge's Religious Art of Maluku Tenggara, Aone van Engelenhoven's Epithets and Epitomes and Chris de Jong's A Footnote to the History of the Dutch Indies.


Map of Sermata Islands


map Sermata Islands


Kaart Sermata Eilanden


map Sermata Eilanden



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