Tanimbar House

Tanibar Culture, House (as offering Temple), from Pre-Colonial times to World War II, located north-east of Timor in the South-East Moluccas. The house has two sacred "axes" with interior shrines for each. Two-to-four families lived in this traditional house form.

Elevation is close to sea coast.

Materials: wood structure, wood support piers, bamboo floor, thatch roof.

Data for CG model:
1. Domenig, Gaudenz, , 2014. RELIGION AND ARCHITECTURE IN PREMODERN INDONESIA, Studies in Spatial Anthropology, , BRILL, Leiden/Boston.