Southeast Asian Wooden Architecture Database at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

 

House on Nias, circa 1895.
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Southeast Asian Wooden Architecture Database

National Museum of Ethnology
国立民族学博物館

 
 

“To Understand Houses and Settlements”
by Professor Koji Sato

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This resource is generously provided by Professor Koji Sato.

 

Toba Batak house on the east coast of Sumatra, circa 1930.
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House of a Batak chief in Toba, North Sumatra. Dr. Elio Modigliani, before 1894.
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Guard of honor upon the arrival of—presumably—officials of the Civil Administration in South Nias, circa 1880.
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House in a Tanimbar garden village, Maluku, 1924-1932.
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Nias, Kampong Orahili, circa 1930.
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The roof framework of a Sumba house under construction. Cees Taillie, 1949.
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Tanimbar house viewed at an angle from a hill, Maluku, 1924-1932.
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The village square with the sacrificial and slaughtering post at Boawai, at the foot of the Ambulombo (or Keo Piek) volcano. Charles Le Roux, ca. 1915.
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Houses in a village near Soë, Timor Tengah Selatan, 1927.
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Village in Central Lombok, circa 1910.
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House by Lake Batur in Bali lensed by S. Satake, circa 1930.
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Minangkabau-style houses in the Padang Highlands. Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, ca. 1915.
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The grave of a raja, Rendeh. Rindi, East Timor, 1900-1940.
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Minangkabau houses (roemah gadang) in Singkarak on Sumatra's west coast. C. Nieuwenhuis, circa 1900.
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Minangkabau house (roemah gadang) in Padangpandjang, circa 1925.
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Karo Batak village of Bukum. K. Feilberg, 1870.
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House, presumably at Tehoru on Ceram, circa 1920.
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House in Roeteg Toea in the Manggarai area of Flores, 1941-1953.
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Kajanan House on the Kai Islands, Maluku, 1924-1932.
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House on Savu, East Nusa Tenggara Province, 1928.
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The house of the Raja of Nikiniki. Timor Tengah Selatan, 1928-1929.
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Karo Batak house in Kabanjahe. Uitgave Meyster & Varekamp, Medan, circa 1910.
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House during the Borneo expedition led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis, presumably on the Upper Mahakam. Kalimantan, circa 1896-1897.
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Village in Ngada, Central Flores, circa 1930.
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Village with stilt houses and a sacrificial site on a beach in the Tanimbar Islands. Maluku.
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Tongkonan in Tadongkon, Kesu’ Distict of North Toraja Regency, South Sulawesi.
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Village scene by the Karama River, Toraja. Ir. H Wolvekamp, 1910-1916.
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Houses in Roeteng Toea in the Manggarai region of Flores, circa 1965.
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“The Y-shaped sacred post (kadjoe heboe) in the center of the lampoeng Deroe, on the northwest slope of the Keo volcano (Ngada subdivision, Central Flores), characteristic of the Nage tribe. The sacred post features carvings and is decorated here and there with blue beads: June 27, 1910.” — G. P. Rouaffer.
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Stone circle (dul) with sacred significance for dwellings at Pitumbang on Alor Island. E.E. & H. Vatter, 1928-1929.
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Tongkonan in the village of Tadongkon, Kesu’ Distict of North Toraja Regency, South Sulawesi.
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News 16Editorial TeamArt of the Ancestors, Steven G. Alpert, Asian Art, Island Southeast Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Asiatica, Ethnographica, Ethnographic Art, Art Collection, Fine Art, Primitive Art, Indonesian Art, Tribal Art, Eyes of the Ancestors, Dr. Reimar Schefold