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| | | | 359 Moluccas, Tanimbar
Bakan or tais (sarong)
| | Locale: | Yamdena, probably | | Period: | Circa 1930 | | Panels: | 2 | | Design: | The main ikat motif is not common, and it does not occur in Van Vuuren's extensive catalogue of Tanimbarese motifs. Van Vuuren suggests seeing at it as a variant of the unnamed motif 136 on p. 183 of her invaluable 'Ikat from Tanimbar': Take out the middle and shove the left and right sections together. This indeed produces a close match. The stippling in the midfield was created, not with ikat but supplementary warp. Note the subtle asymmetry: of the 19 striped horizontal bands, ten are on the the bottom panel, nine on the top panel - probably produced by creating two identical panels with nine-and-and-a-half striped bands each and transfering half of one band to another panel. | | Size: | 64 x 118 cm (25.1 x 46.4 in) | | Weight: | 460 g (305 g/m2) | | Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, medium | | Comment: | This is one of those relatively rare cloths found across the eastern islands, that were made in a period when machine made yarn was a luxury. As is typical for cloths of this transitional period, the ikat work was done in the costly machine-made yarn, 'benang toko', all of the rest in hand-spun cotton. | | Background: | Additional information in chapters on Moluccas and Tanimbar. | | Compare: | 079 080 173 277 358 | | Sources: | A related motif (a more elongated version of the main motif in this piece) is shown in Marianne van Vuuren, Ikat from Tanimbar, p. 183, motif 136, found on a sarong from Yamdena. | | |
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