Art of the Ancestors invites you to explore a curated selection of essential tomes on the subject of Island Southeast Asia.
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Adams, Marie Jeanne, and Jill Forshee. Decorative Arts of Sumba. Amsterdam: Pepin Press, 1999.
Amann, Heribert (Editor). Textiles from Borneo: The Iban, Kantu, Ketungau, and Mualang Peoples. Milan: 5 Continents, 2013.
Ave, J.B. Kalimantan, Mythe en Kunst. Delft: Indonesisch Ethnografisch Museum, 1973.
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Barbier, J. P., Indonesian Primitive Art: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, from the Collection of the Barbier-Müller Museum, Geneva. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1984.
Barbier, J. P., and D. Newton. Islands and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Munich: Prestel, 1988.
Barbier, Jean Paul, ed. Messages in Stone: Statues and Sculptures from Tribal Indonesia in the Collections of the Barbier Mueller Museum. Milan: Skira; Geneva: Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1998.
Barbier, J. P., Tobaland: The Shreds of Tradition. Geneva, 1983.
Barnes, Ruth and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, eds. Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles. Munich: Prestel, 2010.
Bellwood, Peter. Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Rev. ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.
Bennett, James. Crescent Moon: Islamic Art and Civilization in Southeast Asia. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2006.
Bernet Kempers, August J. The Kettledrums of Southeast Asia: A Bronze Age World and Its Aftermath. Rotterdam; Brookfield, VT: Balkema, 1988.
Bhanu, S. ed. The Crafts of Malaysia. Singapore. Editions Didier Millet, 1994.
Bock, Carl, with an introduction by R. H. W. Reece. The Head-Hunters of Borneo: A Narrative of Travel Up the Mahakam and Down the Barito. [1881] Reprint. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Brinkgreve, Francine and Retno Sulistianingsih, eds. Sumatra: Crossroads of Cultures. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2009.
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Carpenter, B.W. Indonesian Tribal Art: The Roger Dashow Collection. Didier Millet, 2015
Chin, Lucas. Cultural Heritage of Sarawak. Sarawak, Malaysia: Sarawak Museum, 1980.
Corbey, Raymond. Headhunters from the Swamps: The Marind Anim of New Guinea as Seen by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 1905-1925. Leiden, KITLV Press; C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2010.
Corbey, Raymond. Jurookng, Shamanic Amulets from Southeast Borneo. Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2018.
Corbey, Raymond. Raja Ampat Ritual Art. Spirit Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guinea's Far West. Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2017.
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de Jonge, N and Toos van Dijk. Forgotten Islands: Art and Culture of the Southeast Moluccas. Leiden: National Museum of Ethnology, 1995.
Dijk, Janneke van; Susan Legêne. The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2011.
Duarte, Jorge Barros. Timor: Ritos e mitos Ataúros. Lisbon: Ministério da Educação. Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, 1984.
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Feldman, Jerome Allen. Arc of the Ancestors: Indonesian Art from the Jerome L. Joss Collection at UCLA. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1994.
Feldman, Jerome et al. Nias Tribal Treasures: Cosmic Reflections in Stone, Wood and Gold. Delft, Netherlands: Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, 1990.
Feldman, J. A. The Architecture of Nias, thesis. Columbia University, 1977.
Feldman, Jerome A. The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Los Angeles: UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1985-6.
Fischer, Joseph. Threads of Tradition: Textiles of Indonesia and Sarawak. Oakland, CA: published for the University of California by Fidelity Savings and Loan Association, 1979.
Fontein, Jan. The Sculpture of Indonesia. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995.
Fox, James J., ed. The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Friede, John et al. New Guinea Art: Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection from Marcia and John Friede. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2005.
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Gavin, Traude. Iban Ritual Textiles. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2004.
Gavin, Traude. The Women's Warpath: Iban Ritual Fabrics from Borneo. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1996.
Gittinger, Mattiebelle. Splendid Symbols: Textiles and Traditions in Indonesia: Revised edition. Oxford: OUP South East Asia, 1985.
Gittinger, Mattiebelle. Textiles for this World & Beyond: Southeast Asia—Treasures from Insular Southeast Asia. New York: Scala Publishers, 2005.
Gittinger, Mattiebelle, ed.. To Speak with Cloth: Studies in Indonesian Textiles. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles Museum of Cultural History, 1989.
Granucci, Anthony F. The Art of the Lesser Sundas. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2005.
Greub, S. Art of Northwest New Guinea: From Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.
Greub, Suzanne, ed. Expressions of Belief: Masterpieces of African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art from the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam. New York: Rizzoli, 1988.
Grubauer, Albert. Celebes: Ethnologische Streifzüge in Südost- und Zentral-Celebes. Hagen im Walk und Darmstadt: Folkwang-Verlag, 1923.
Grubauer, A. Unter Kofpjägern in Central-Celebes. Leipzig, 1913.
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Hamilton, Roy ed. with contributions by Ruth Barnes…[et al]. Gift of the Cotton Maiden: Textiles of Flores and the Solor Islands. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999.
Hamilton, Roy W. and Joanna Barrkman eds. Textiles of Timor: Island in the Woven Sea. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2015.
Heppell, Michael, Limbang anak Melaka, and Enyan anak Usen. Iban Art—Sexual Selection and Severed Heads: Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing, and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2005.
Heppell, Michael, and Robyn J. Maxwell. Borneo and Beyond: Tribal Arts of Indonesia, East Malaysia and Madagascar. Singapore: Bareo Gallery, 1990.
Heringa, Rens and Harmen Veldhuisen. Fabric of Enchantment: Batik from the North Coast of Java. Weatherhill, 1997.
Hicks, David. Tetum Ghost and Kin: Fieldwork in an Indonesian Community. Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979.
Holmgren, Robert J. and Anita E. Spertus. Early Indonesian Textiles from Three Island Cultures: Sumba Toraja Lampung. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.
Holt, Claire. Art in Indonesia: Continuities and Change. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.
Hose, Charles and MacDougall, William. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo. 2 vol. London: MacMillan, 1912.
Hoskins, Janet ed.. Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
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Jessup, Helen Ibbitson. Court Arts of Indonesia. New York: Harry N Abrams, 1990.
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Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Textile Traditions of Indonesia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977.
Khan, Majlis B. Indonesische Textilien, Wege zu Göttern und Ahnen. Köln: Köln Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld, 1984.
Kis-Jovak, Imre Jowa ed.. Banua Toraja: Changing Patterns in Architecture and Symbolism Among the Sa’Dan Toraja, Sulawesi Indonesia. KITLV, 1988.
Kooijman, Simon. The Art of Lake Sentani. New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1959.
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Langewis, Laurens and Frits A. Wagner. Decorative Art in Indonesian Textiles. Amsterdam: C. P. J. van der Peet, 1964.
Lee, Peter. Sarong Kebaya: Peranakan Fashion in an Interconnected World 1500-1950. Singapore: Asian Civilizations Museum, 2014.
Lerner, Martin and Steven M Kossak. The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Sculpture from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.
Ling Roth, H. The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. 2 vols. London: Truslove & Hanson, 1896-8.
Linggi, Datin Amar Margaret. Ties That Bind: Iban Ikat Weaving. Sarawak, Malaysia: Tun Jugah Foundation, 2001.
Low, Hugh Brooke. Sarawak: Its Inhabitants and Productions; Being Notes During a Residence in That Country with His Excellency Mr. Brooke. London: R. Bentley, 1848.
Lumholtz, Carl. Through Central Borneo: An Account of Two Years’ Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters between the Years 1913 and 1917. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: Fisher Unwin, 1920.
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Maxwell, Robyn J. Life, Death and Magic: 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.
Maxwell, Robyn. Sari to Sarong: Five Hundred Years of Indian and Indonesian Textile Exchange. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2004.
Maxwell, Robyn. Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Nieuwenkamp, W. O. J. “Kunst van Timor." Nederlandsch Indië Oud & Nieuw. Den Haag, 1925.
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Robbins, Carol. Selections from the Steven G. Alpert Collection of Indonesian Textiles. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1984.
Rodgers, S. Power and Gold. Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines in the Barbier-Mueller Collection. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1985; 2nd ed. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1988.
Rogers, T.D. An Annotated Bibliography of Indonesian, Filipino and Malay Edged Weapons. Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2015.
Roth, Henry Ling. The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1968 (1896).
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Sarasin, Paul, and Fritz Sarasin. Reisen in Celebes ausgeführt in den Jahren 1893-1896 und 1902-1903. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Kreidel, 1905.
Schärer, Hans, with a preface by P.E. de Josselin de Jong. Translated by Rodney Needham. Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1963.
Schefold, Reimar. Lia; das grosse Ritual auf den Mentawai-Inseln (Indonesien). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1988.
Schefold, Reimar and Alpert, Steven eds. et al. Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Schefold, Reimar. Toys for the Souls: Life and Art on the Mentawai Islands. Bornival: Primedia, 2017.
Schefold, R. and Vermeulen, H. eds. Treasure Hunting? Collectors and Collections of Indonesian Artifacts. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2002.
Schefold, Reimar, Vincent Dekker, and Nico de Jonge, eds. Indonesia in Focus: Ancient Traditions–Modern Times. Meppel, Netherlands: Edu’Actief Publishing Company, 1988.
Schefold, Reimar. Indonesian Houses: Tradition and Transformation in Vernacular Architecture (Leiden Series on Indonesian Architecture). Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003.
Schefold, Reimar. Indonesian Houses, Volume 2: Survey of Vernacular Architecture in Western Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2009.
Schefold, Reimar. Speelgoed voor de zielen: Kunst en cultuur van de Mentawai-eilanden/Spielzeug für die Seelen, Kunst und Kultur der Mentawai-Inseln (Indonesien). Delft: Museum Nusantara; Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 1979–80.
Schefold, Reimar. “The Southeast Asian-type House: Common Features and Local Transformations of an Ancient Architectural Tradition." Indonesian Houses. Vol. 1: Tradition and Transformation in Vernacular Architecture. Edited by Reimar Schefold, Gaudenz Domenig, and Peter J. M. Nas. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003.
Schneebaum, Tobias. Asmat Images from the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress: Text, Photographs and Drawings. Minneapolis: Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress, 1985.
Schnitger, F. M., Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, and Gerald L. Tichelman. Forgotten Kingdoms in Sumatra. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1938-9.
Schröder, E. E. W. Nias: Ethnographische, Geographische, en Historische Aanteekeningen en Studien. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1917.
Sellato, Bernard, J. L., and Gilles Perret, et al. Hornbill and Dragon: Kalimantan, Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei. Jakarta: Elf Aquitaine Indonesia, 1989.
Sibeth, Achim, Uli Kozok, and Juara R. Ginting. The Batak: Peoples of the Island of Sumatra. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Sibeth, Achim, and Bruce Carpenter. Batak Sculpture. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2007.
Sibeth, Achim. Batak. Kunst aus Sumatra. Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Völkerkunde, 2000.
Smidt, D. A. M. Asmat Art. Woodcarvings of Southwest New Guinea. Singapore: Periplus; Leiden: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, 1993.
Solyom, Bronwen, and Garrett Solyom. Fabric Traditions of Indonesia. Pullman: Washington State University Press and the Museum of Art, Washington State University, 1990.
Stöhr, W. and W. Marschall [et al]. Art of the Archaic Indonesians. Geneva, 1981.
Stöhr, W., and P. Zoetmulder. Les Religions d’Indonésie. Paris: Payot, 1968.
Summerfield, Anne and Summerfield, John Ed. [et al]. Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999.
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Tanudirjo, Daud and Pieter ter Keurs eds. Ancestors and Rituals: Europalia 2017. Snoeck Publishers 2017
Tavarelli, Andrew ed. Protection, Power and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia. Boston: Boston College Museum of Art, 1995: 19-35. Boston: Boston College Museum of Art, 1995
Taylor, Paul Michael. Fragile Traditions: Indonesian Art in Jeopardy. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1994.
Taylor, Paul Michael, Lorraine V. Aragon, with assistance from Annamarie L. Rice. Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands. Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Harry N Abrams, 1991.
Tillema, Hendrik F. A Journey among the Peoples of Central Borneo in Word and Picture, edited and with an introduction by Victor T. King. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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van Baaren, Theodorus Petrus. Korwars and korwar style : art and ancestor worship in North-west New Guinea. Mouton, 1968
van Brakel, J.H. et al. A Passion for Indonesian Art: The Georg Tillmann Collection at the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut Voor De Tropen; Tropenmuseum, 1997.
van Brakel, J.H. et al. Budaya Indonesia. Kunst en Cultuur in Indonesie/Arts and Crafts in Indonesia. Amsterdam: Tropenmuseum, 1987
van Hout, I.C., ed. Batik - Drawn in Wax: 200 Years of Batik Art from Indonesia in the Tropenmuseum Collection. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2001.
van Hout, I.C. Indonesian Textiles at the Tropenmuseum. Volendam, Netherlands: LM Publishers, 2018
van Zonneveld, Albert G.. Traditionele wapens van Borneo. De uitrusting van de koppensnellers Deel 1, Schilden en krijgskleding Leiden: Sunfield Publishing, 2015.
van Zonneveld, Albert G.. Traditional Weapons of the Indonesian Archipelago. Translated by P. Richardus and T.D. Rogers. Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2001-2.
Veldhuisen, Harman C. Batik Belanda, 1840-1940: Dutch influence in Batik from Java, history and stories. Jakarta: Gaya Favorit Press, 1993.
Vroklage, Bernard A. G. Ethnographie der Belu in Zentral-Timor, I, II, & III. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1953.
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Wassing-Visser, Rita. Royal Gifts from Indonesia: Historical Bonds with the House of Orange-Nassau (1600-1938). Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders, 1995.
Wassing-Visser, Rita. Sieraden en Lichaamsversiering uit Indonesië. Delft: Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, 1984.
Waterson, Roxana. The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia. Singapore and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Webb, Virginia Lee et al. Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. Houston, Tex.: Menil Foundation, 2011.
Wentholt, Arnold. Nusantara: Highlights from Museum Nusantara Delft. Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books; Delft: Stichting Nusantara, 2014.