Table of Contents

Foreword / Marla C. Berns

Acknowledgments / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman

Notes on Nomenclature / Roy W. Hamilton

1. Culture, History, and Weaving in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton

2. Textile Style Ares in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman with a contribution by Rosalia Elisa Madeira Soares

3. Plants as the Pivot: The Ethnobotany of Timorese Textiles / Anthony B. Cunningham, Willy Doas Kadati, Jose Ximenes, Jean Howe, I Made Maduarta, and William Ingram

4. Early Textiles from Timor / Ruth Barnes

5. Textiles of Oecusse: A Personal Account / Willy Daos Kadati with Anne Finch

6. "She Comes with a Spindle in Her Hand": Biboki Textiles / Joanna Barrkman

7. Malaka Regency: Cloth of the Plain, Cloth of the Hills / Roy W. Hamilton and Yahannes Nahak Taromi

8. Textiles of Suai Loro and Camenaca / Joanna Barrkman

9. Continuity and Change in the Kemak Textiles of Marobo / Joanna Barrkman

10. Alfred Buhler's Collection from Baguia at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel / Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff

11. Loss and Return: Personal Stories of Fataluku Weavers / Jill Forshee

Notes to the Text

References Cited

Index

Exhibition List

Contributors

About the Author

Roy W. Hamilton is senior curator of Asian and Pacific collections at the Fowler Museum. Joanna Barrkman is an independent curator and doctoral candidate at the Australian National Museum. The other contributors are Ruth Barnes, Anthony B. Cunningham, Anne Finch, Jill Forshee, Jean Howe, William Ingram, Willy Daos Kadati, I Made Maduarta, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Rosália Elisa Madeira Soares, Yohannes Nahak Taromi, and Jose Ximenes.

Reviews

"Individuals seeking an introduction to the textiles of Timor as well as serious researchers in a variety of fields, in and out of textiles, will have plenty to explore in this well-researched and well-documented book."
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