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ART on view nique. Their overall designs and floral central fields, however, 106 show Indian influence, albeit transformed into an indigenous aesthetic. Sulawesi was the other major region that interested Holmgren and Spertus and from which they collected widely. The department has just under 100 of these textiles, most of them from the various Toraja groups of South Sulawesi (fig. 9). These include ceremonial weavings (paporitonoling), many to be used as shrouds (porisitutu); long banners to be displayed on ritual occasions (sarita and roto); appliquéd women’s jackets; and barkcloth head wrappers. A very early textile collected in Poso but possibly made in Minahasa may be seen as the ancestor of the twentieth-century warp-ikat textiles from Flores, the Lamaholot Islands, and the southern Moluccas (fig. 10). The Iban of Borneo have produced some of the most complex textile designs anywhere in the world. These appear both in ceremonial textiles (the large pua) and in women’s skirts. The pua may be patterned in either the warp-ikat or sungkit (supplementary patterning) techniques (fig. 11). The Holmgren-Spertus Collection already had some excellent pieces, but once the department was launched it was decided that this was an area where we should continue to build up the collection. We now have a strong Iban textile collection, with some of the finest pua cloths in any museum. It has been possible to expand our textile collection considerably since I arrived in 2010. We now have almost 700 textiles, most of them from Indonesia. There also is a small, but attractive collection from the Philippines, mostly of abaca (banana) fiber with warp-ikat patterning. Timor, Flores, and the southern Moluccas also are represented. SCULPTURE Tom Jaffe, meanwhile, has focused on three-dimensional art. The permanent gallery gives an overview. Borneo is well represented, both with large-scale sculpture and smaller but exquisitely detailed carvings in wood and bone (fig. 12). The display includes large guardian figures (hampatong) and dragon-snakes (aso), as well as extremely fine swords with incised blades and intricately ornamented hilts, baby carriers, and tools and containers used in daily life (fig. 13). The Batak collection’s strength is in ritual objects that were formerly used by priests (datu). Two exceptionally fine priest’s staffs are on view (fig. 14), along with a medicine horn and two of the collection’s five Batak books, as well as containers for magic potions. A priest’s belt made


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