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IKAT FROM SOLOR ARCHIPELAGO, INDONESIA


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  • 025 LEMBATA
    Wela (sarong). Warp ikat. 1915-1940. Kedang region of Eastern Lembata; probably made on the island in Kalikur, or made of ikated skeins from eastern Adonara
  • 047 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Early 20th c. Lamalera, whalers community. Lamaholot people.
  • 048 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 19th or very early 20th c. Lamalera; whalers community. Lamaholot people.
  • 068 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 19th c. Lembata, most likely the village of Kalikur
  • 098 SOLOR
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Circa 1940. Village unknown. Lamaholot people.
  • 114 ALOR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. 1920-1940. Alor Kecil, made by Alurung (Alorese) speaking people.
  • 115 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 19th or early 20th c. Ili Api. Lamaholot people.
  • 119 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 19th or very early 20th c. Atadei. Lamaholot people.
  • 126 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 19th to early 20th c. Lamalera, whalers community, or Atadei. Lamaholot people.
  • 130 ADONARA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 19th to early 20th C. Village unknown. Lamaholot people.
  • 131 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 19th or early 20th c. Ili Api. Lamaholot people.
  • 148 SOLOR
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 1940-1955. Lamawohung village, West Solor. Lamaholot people.
  • 166 ALOR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. 1920-1940. West Alor, Bird's Head Peninsula, Adang speaking) people.
  • 167 TERNATE AND BUAYA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Circa 1950. Buaya or Ternate (precise identification impossible due to stylistic similarity).
  • 178 LEMBATA
    Wela (sarong). Warp ikat. Early 20th c. Kedang, Eastern Lembata, most probably 'imported' from Ili Api.
  • 179 SOLOR
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Ca 1950. Tanalein, on south coast of the island.
  • 184 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. 1925-1950. Village unknown, ikat work possibly made by Alurung (Alorese speaking) people.
  • 221 SOLOR
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 1930-1945. Western Solor, village unknown. Lamaholot people.
  • 247 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Ca. 1900. Atadei, Lamaholot people.
  • 284 ADONARA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. 19th c. to very early 20th. Village unknown, Lamaholot people
  • 309 LEMBATA
    Wela (sarong). Warp ikat. Circa 1900. Kedang, Eastern Lembata, most probably 'imported' from Ili Api.
  • 314 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. ca. 1940. Kabir village, west coast of eastern Pantar, made by Alurung (Alorese speaking) people, almost certainly on Ternate
  • 315 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. . Collected in Kabir village, west coast of eastern Pantar, probably made on Ternate, Alurung (Alorese speaking) people.
  • 316 LEMBATA
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Early 20th c. Atadei, Lerek, probably Atawolo
  • 321 SOLOR
    Selendang (shawl). Warp ikat. Late 19th to early 20th c. Lewotanaole village in West Solor, Lamaholot people
  • 337 SOLOR
    Kewatek (sarong). Warp ikat. Circa 1920-1930. Tanalein, on the south coast of the island
  • 338 TERNATE AND BUAYA
    Tenapi (sarong). Warp ikat. . Collected on East Pantar, but made on Ternate, probably Umapura village, Alurung people,
  • 339 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Weft ikat. . Bakalang village, N.E. Pantar, Alurung (Alorese speaking) people. Possibly made on Ternate to Pantarese specification, though evidence of local manufacture is getting stronger.
  • 343 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. . Collected in Bumang village in Kecamatan Pantar Tengah, which translates as Central Pantar, but is really the south. Desa unknown. Made by Alurung (Alurese speaking) people.
  • 344 ALOR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. . Dulolong village, west of Kalabahi on the northern shore of the Bay of Kalabahi. Alurung people.
  • 345 TERNATE AND BUAYA
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. . Made on Ternate by Alurung (Alorese speaking) people, and collected on Pantar from the family of the Kapitan of Puntaru village.
  • 346 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. 1934-1942. Baranusa, NW Pantar, Alurung (Alorese speaking) people.
  • 347 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 20th c. Collected in Lamahule village, a hamlet (dusun) in Bakalang, the capital of the East Pantar subdistrict (Pantarese speaking people), made by Alurung (Alorese) speaking people.
  • 348 ALOR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 20th to early 21st c. Alor Kecil village, Alurung (Alorese speaking) people.
  • 352 ALOR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 20th to early 21st c. Alor Besar, Alurung people.
  • 353 PANTAR
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 20th to early 21st c. Unidentified.
  • 356 MARICA
    Kafate (sarong). Warp ikat. Late 20th to early 21st c. Marica is a tiny island off Pantar, Alurung people.
  • 371 PANTAR
    Bulohing (sarong). Warp ikat and nassa shell appliqué. Late 20th to early 21st c. Helandohi village, northern Pantar, Alurung people


Solor Archipelago


This group of small islands and islets is interesting as much for what we don't as about what we do know about them. They are all populated by Lamaholot people, but are culturally quite distinct, which shows in their textiles. Please refer to the pages for the individual islands. From west to east:
The ikat traditions of Lembata have been well documented, those of Solor in much less detail (both mainly by Ruth Barnes), those of Alor only in passing and long ago (Ernst Vatter), those of Adonara hardly. The textiles from Pantar and the tiny islands off Alor - Pura, Buaya (a.k.a. Kisu) and Ternate - have not been studied at all to our knowledge. They share a vernacular characterized by the common banded structure of the general Lamaholot area, and decoration with simple geometric and aquatic motifs, mainly fishes, manta rays, and turtles. This makes them similar to Alor textiles, but with a more naturalistic representation.
     Because of their similarity the exact provenance of cloths from this group can occasionally be hard to establish, even for experts, especially when they are early 20th C. or older. Wisely, two early sarongs in the Borwin Lüth collection are identified as Pantar (Alor?). There is yet another island in the group, Pura, wedged in between Alor and Pantar, but so far we have not had relieable reports of any ikat originating from this nearly barren island, essentially a volcanic cone with a few hamlets.


 

Literature

The Solor Archipelago, except for a few small pockets, forms part of the Lamaholot cultural space. For literature please refer to the section on Lamaholot people, and to the pages on the individual islands.


Map of the Solor Archipelago


map Solor archipelago



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