Product Description

Sumbawa Chain 1

Material: Copper wire
Style: Sumbawa, Indonesia
Size: Length 190 cm, Width 5 cm (ends)
Order Number: MHSSBB1

Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast.

Long woven chains (kanatar) are wrapped around the neck as symbols of authority throughout the Lesser Sunda and Maluku islands. Finials are in the shape of flat-headed fish or naga dragon.

There is a similar one in Ethnic Jewellery from Indonesia, Continuity and Evolution, Bruce Carpenter, Editions Didier Millet 2011, page 215.

20th century.

Map of Sumbawa, Indonesia.

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