Pottery production and trade in the Banda zone, Indonesia

Roy Frank Ellen

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Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

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This article provides the first comprehensive description of pottery production in the Kei islands of eastern Indonesia, based on field data collected mainly in 1981 and on museum collections in the UK and the Netherlands. The account is situated in what we know of the dynamics of trading systems that existed in the Moluccan islands between 1500 and 2000. Kei pottery is widely thought to be the successor of a tradition established in the Banda islands that was extinguished with the 1621 Dutch massacre, but re-established at several sites in the Kei islands by Banda migrants after this date. These claims are critically examined using ethnographic and archaeological data, and an attempt made to compare the production and trading patterns of pottery in the ‘Banda zone’ before and after 1621.

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