SEMANTIK REFERENSIAL PADA MOTIF KAIN TENUN IKAT SUMBA TIMUR ( MODEL SEGITIGA DASAR OGDEN DAN RICHARDS )

Abstract

Sumba Island is one of several large islands in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), which has four regencies, namely, East Sumba, Central Sumba, West Sumba, and Southwest Sumba. The people of Sumba have long made, used, and traded Sumba ikat/cloth. Sumba woven fabrics have different colors and motifs. The ikat weaving of East Sumba is known for its unique motifs which have different meanings and stories such as human motifs (depicting the history of life in ancient tribal and royal wars), Based on this, the researchers took research on the Referential Semantics of Woven Fabric Motifs Ikat Sumba Timur (Ogden and Richards Basic Triangle Model).

This type of research is a qualitative research. By exploring and studying the motifs of East Sumba ikat in terms of ethnomathematics (Sugiyono, 2015: 404-412), qualitative research is research that relies on observations, interviews, and documentation on the object of research so that data that describes in detail is produced. The purpose of this study was to find out about the referential semantics of the motifs of the ikat cloth in East Sumba (the basic triangle model of Ogden and Richards).

Sumba ikat cloth is one that has a function in several aspects of the life of the people who make it. Both social, economic, aesthetic and so on. Where woven fabric is one of the needs of the community in daily needs.