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Ikat from Tanimbar, Moluccas, Indonesia
 

358 Moluccas, Tanimbar


Bakan or tais (sarong)detail  magnifiermicroscope


Period: 1915-1935
Yarn: Cotton, hand-spun, fine
Technique: Warp ikat
Panels: 2
Size: 62 x 124 cm (2' 0" x 4' 0")   LW: 2.00
Weight: 495 g (17.5 oz), 322 g/m2 (1.06 oz/ft2)
Design: Sarong of a type called tais matin (Yamdena) or bakan maran (Fordata), depending on the island where it was made. The middle motif of the three largest ikated motifs is a man-woman motif - a motif which can take multiple shapes, symmetric or nearly symmetric, often made asymmetric by the introduction of a slightly different design element. Here the figure on the left is ten per cent shorter than the figure on the right, and has more elongated inward curls. Also, there are four white dots on the 'body' of the left figure, three dots on the larger body of the right figure. The two other motifs look like variants of the breast beam motif, katkakan njanan. The narrow band near the extremities contain spool motifs and S-figures.
Comment: [PHOTOGRAPHY PROVISIONAL]
Background: Chapters on Moluccas and Tanimbar.
Compare: 079 080 173 277 359
Sources: All information provided by Van Vuuren, the author of Ikat from Tanimbar, the only book on Ikat from Tanimbar. Spool motif: p. 148 Fig. 48. S-figure p. 156 Fig. 4. Man-woman motifs: p. 141, Figs. 51 and 142. Breast-beam motif: p. 151.
  
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