Product Description

Antique Timor Bracelet 2

Material: Silver
Style: West  Timor, Indonesia
Size: Height 5 cm, Length 7 cm
Order Number: MHSATB2

Timor is best known for its silver bracelets and other jewelry. The Timorese have been using metal for a least 2,000 years but silver arrived late and rapidly replaced gold. Funnily enough silver is not native to Timor. The Europeans brought a large number of silver coins, starting with Spanish pieces of eight in the 16th century. Silver Dutch and Portuguese coins were melted down and made into jewelry.

Meo warrior bracelet with radiating spikes (niti maskuna) Atoni people, West Timor.

There is a similar one in Gold Jewellery from Indonesia, Continuity and Evolution, Bruce Carpenter, Editions Didier Millet 2011, page 258.

19th century or early 20th century.

Please ask for the price (or make an offer).