ART on view FIG. 12 (right): Dragon spirit, aso. Borneo. 18th century or earlier. Wood. Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, Yale University Art Gallery, inv. ILE2012.30.551. Photo: Johan Vipper. FIG. 13 (right): Bottle or container stopper. Kenyah, Borneo. 19th century. Animal bone. Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, Yale University Art Gallery, inv. ILE2012.30.344. Photo: Johan Vipper. of bone plates is densely inscribed with Batak writing. An elegant lute is evidence 108 for the Batak love of music. Also in the collection, though currently not on permanent view, are monumental architectural elements, once part of Batak lineage houses. The department’s Philippine collection excels in ancestor figures (bulul, or more properly binulul, meaning “in the shape of the bulul ancestor spirit”), but also in body ornaments using shells and mother-of-pearl (fig. 15). The Jaffe Collection also contains a small group of items from the Aboriginals of Taiwan, a cultural part of the Austronesian world. Prominent among these objects is a magnificent grain storage drum. It is rare in the twenty-first century when an entirely new and significant museum collection springs into being. Thanks to the remarkable generosity of a small number of collectors, this has been possible at the Yale University Art Gallery. NOTES 1. The gallery is named after the Yale art historians George Kubler and Robert Farris Thompson. 2. John Miksic. Old Javanese Gold. The Hunter Thompson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery (2011). 3. The papers will be published as Ruth Barnes, Emma Stein, and Benjamin Diebold (eds.). Gold in Early Southeast Asia: Selected Papers from the Symposium “Gold in Southeast Asia.” Yale Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph 64. New Haven: Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies (forthcoming). 4. Thomas Murray. “Red Tapis.” Hali 171: 72–79 (2012). FIG. 15 (below): Ancestor spirit figure, bulul. Ifugao, Luzon, Philippines. 19th century. Wood. Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, Yale University Art Gallery, inv. ILE2012.30.139. Photo: Johan Vipper. FIG. 14 (right): Priest’s staff, tunggal panaluan (detail). Toba Batak, Sumatra. 19th century or earlier. Wood, brass, silver, cotton thread, rattan webbing, hair. Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, Yale University Art Gallery, inv. ILE2012.30.145. Photo: Johan Vipper.
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