Gift of the Cotton Maiden

by Hamilton, Roy W.; Barnes, Ruth; University of California, Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural histor

• ISBN13: 9780930741389
• ISBN10: 0930741382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Museum of

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(12)
Preface	12	(2)
Acknowledgments	14	(4)
Part 1 Introduction
Roy W. Hamilton
Maps of Indonesia, Flores and the Solor Islands	18	(2)
Behind the Cloth: The History and Culture of Flores	20	(20)
The Many Roles of Weaving and Textiles	40	(18)
Textile Technology	58	(22)
Part 2 Regional Surveys
Manggarai Regency	80	(18)
Roy W. Hamilton
Ngada Regency	98	(24)
Roy W. Hamilton
Ende Regency	122	(26)
Roy W. Hamilton
Sikka Regency	148	(22)
E. D. Lewis
East Flores Regency	170	(24)
Ruth Barnes
Part 3 Case Studies
The Curse of the Cooked People: Weaving in Northeastern Manggarai	194	(16)
Maribeth Erb
Cloth Production and Change in a Lio Village	210	(18)
Willemijn de Jong
Vouchsafing Fecundity in Eastern Flores: Textiles and Exchange in the Rites of Life	228	(18)
Penelope Graham
Black and Red, White and Yellow: Socio-cosmic Ideas in Palu'e Textiles	246	(22)
Michael P. Vischer
Notes to the Text	268	(8)
Appendix A: Orthography	276	(2)
Appendix B: Looms	278	(2)
References Cited	280	(6)
Illustration Credits	286	(1)
Contributors	287