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184 Solor Archipelago, Pantar
Kafate (sarong)  
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| Locale: | Village unknown, ikat work possibly made by Alurung (Alorese speaking) people. |
| Period: | 1925-1950 |
| Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, medium |
| Technique: | Warp ikat |
| Panels: | 2 |
| Size: | 64 x 140.5 cm (2' 1" x 4' 7") LW: 2.20 |
| Weight: | 775 g (27.3 oz), 431 g/m2 (1.41 oz/ft2) |
| Design: | Bridewealth sarong with very fine patterning. Ikated bands with small motifs that show some patola inspiration: tiny tumpal, and motifs that may be intended as small jilamprang. |
| Comment: | Pantar bridewealth sarong of high quality for the standards of the island. Style clearly similar to that of Alorese adat sarongs. Hand spun yarn with narrow accent stripes in red, yellow, white and black silk, all only one or two threads wide. There is a striking similarity with ikat from Alor and Lembata, the latter made by Lamaholot people, whose style appears to have been adopted - or who refined a style that existed on Pantar and Alor before. Ex collection August Flick. |
| Background: | Chapters on Solor Archipelago and Pantar. |
| Compare: | 314 315 |
| Sources: | Very similar to old sarong photographed on Pantar by Chris Buckley, 2014. Also very similar to a vintage bridewealth sarong acquired on Pantar by dealer Aja Bordeville in 2013 that has a very similar division of the field. Sarongs with similar patterning, but with blue midfield in Khan Majlis, Woven Messages, Fig,. 202 and 203. Both are given the provenance 'Pantor/Alor (?)'. |
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