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Ref ID: 25324
Ref Type: Book Section in a Series
Authors: Hakim, Budianto
O'Connor, Sue
Bulbeck, David
Title: Black drawings at the cave site of Gua Pondoa, Southeast Sulawesi: the motifs and a comparison with pigment art elsewhere in Sulawesi and the broader Western Pacific region
Date: 2018
Source: The Archaeology of Sulawesi
Place of Publication: Acton, ACT, Australia
Publisher: Australia National University Press
DOI: 10.22459/TA48.11.2018.07
Abstract: Drawing on cave surfaces constitutes a human production that involved depicting objects, events or symbolic notions. With this perspective, we can gain an insight into both mundane and ritual aspects of the life of earlier communities. Here we look at the art of Gua Pondoa in the Matarombeo Massif of Southeast Sulawesi and discuss its commonalities with other pigment art in Sulawesi and that found elsewhere in the Western Pacific region referred to under the umbrella term the ‘Austronesian Painting Tradition’, and find both similarities and differences.
Date Created: 11/27/2018
Editors: O'Connor, Sue
Bulbeck, David
Meyer, Juliet
Volume: 48
Page Start: 79
Page End: 92
Series Editor: O'Connor, Sue
Series Title: Terra Australis