SermataSermata 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. [THIS IS A STUB, TO BE ELABORATED] |
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