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This article demonstrates that compositional principles of decorated textiles in East Sumba, Indonesia, find parallels in the formal rules by which major activities of the society are organized. In exploring the implications of this common use of structures, it suggests that this art does not reflect society but that both respond to the same structural principles which are those preferred as intellectual forms by the local culture.
Marie Jeanne Adams (Thu,) studied this question.