Product Description

Antique Tanimbar Pendant

Material: Gold and silver alloy
Style: Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia
Size: Height 3, Width 3 cm
Order Number: MHSATE5

The Tanimbar Islands are located in the South Moluccas and comprise over 60 islands which are 135 miles long and 70 miles wide. They depend on boats as their main transport.

Pendant or earring or house treasure object decorated with spirals and 2 crouching figures facing a house structure. The position of the humans is similar to wood carvings from the same area. Such a piece would be a family heirloom symbolising the power of the house and its position in the village.

Omega-shaped, these are the furthest eastern examples of gold being used in Indonesia for the omega form.

There is a similar one in the Collection of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Geneva shown in Power and Gold, Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, Prestel-Verlag, 1985, page 227.

18th – 19th century.

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