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031 Timor, West Timor
Tais (sarong)  
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| Locale: | Malaka, Tetun people |
| Period: | 1930-1950 |
| Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, medium |
| Technique: | Warp ikat |
| Panels: | 3 |
| Size: | 110 x 129 cm (3' 7" x 4' 2") LW: 1.17 |
| Weight: | 615 g (21.7 oz), 217 g/m2 (0.71 oz/ft2) |
| Design: | Central field decorated with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures in white on indigo. The lozenge-shaped motif represents a crocodile. The one-eyed human figure has a wide distribution in the archipelago and is probably ancient. The oppositional placement of human figures with heads (nearly) touching is found in various parts of western Timor, but probably most common in Amanuban and Amanatun. |
| Comment: | All natural dyes except a few pinstripes in red, yellow and green silk, letros, a few threads wide. Made by a weaver with strong hands, as betrayed by the clear delineation of motifs and the absence of capillary seepage of the indigo. Ex collection August Flick. |
| Background: | Chapters on Timor and West Timor. |
| Exhibited: | Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, 2017.
Timor: Totems and Tokens, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, 2019/20. |
| Published: | Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago, 2018.
Timor: Totems and Tokens, 2019.
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| Sources: | Very similar in terms of overall structure down to the narrow ikated bands, to Malaka tais in Yeager and Jacobson, Textiles of Western Timor, Plate 230. Similar stylisation of crocodile in Fig. 47L. Human figures similar to some of those in Fig. 46. |
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