Nage

For the poaching liquor, see nage (food)

The Nage are an indigenous people living on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores.

Study of the tribe

In 1940, Officer Louis Fontijne produced a Dutch Colonial Service study entitled Grondvoogden in Kelimado (Guardians of the land in Kelimado), Kelimado being a region included in the Nage district of central Flores. Commissioned as an investigation of indigenous land tenure and leadership, the study was the only comprehensive description of Nage society and culture produced during the colonial period.^[1]

In 1983, anthropologist Gregory Forth renewed interest in the tribe, revisiting the islands while seeking a copy of Fontijne's complete study.^[1]

Forth has also hypothesized a possible connection between the local stories of the Ebu Gogo, a creature in Nage mythology, and the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a possible species of extinct hominid, hence a renewed interest in the tribe.^[2]

Further reading

• Fontijne, Louis; Gregory Forth, Han F. Vermeulen (2005). Guardians Of The Land In Kelimado: Louis Fontijne's Study Of A Colonial District In Eastern Indonesia. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-9067182232. 

References

External links

• "Ancestral Couple (Ana Deo), 19th–early 20th century". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/10/sse/ho_2006.510.htm. Retrieved December 2009.  - an example of Nage art
• Forth, Gregory (September 2009). "Separating the dead: the ritual transformation of affinal exchange in central Flores". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Royal Anthropological Institute) 15 (3): 557–574. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01572.x.