RANTE DAMA',  KONDONGAN
a ceremonial field in 1938, a graveyard in 2006

 

Rante Kondongan Rante Kondongan

Bier bearers pause after crossing the rice fields

Commemoration stones (simbuang batu)
and meat distribution platform

 

 

Rante Kondongan Rante Kondongan

Ma'randing dancers following

the ma'peliang procession
 

 

Rante Kondongan

Rante Kondongan

Three commemoration stones are still standing

on the overgrown former ritual field
 

 

Rante Kondongan

Rante Kondongan

Tombs (patane), the ancestor's last resting places.

Toraja call them "houses from which no smoke rises"
 

 

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1938 photos by Claire Holt
Status: 7 February 2006

Claire Holt was born in Riga, Latvia in 1901. She served as a reporter for the The New York World, publishing dance reviews. She traveled to Indonesia in 1930 where she studied dance, working with the anthropologist Willem Stutterheim, and then assisting the Swedish dance archivist and patron Rolf de Mare with his photo and film documentation of Indonesian dance. She returned to the U.S. and served as a research assistant to Margaret Mead, as a research analyst for the Office of Strategic Services, and as a foreign affairs specialist for the State Department. She came to Cornell University, where in 1962, she helped found the Modern Indonesia Project.

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