Open AccessChinese-Malay wood carving: the Kapitan house at Bagansiapiapi
Author(s) -
Gun Faisal,
Yohannes Firzal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/452/1/012059
Subject(s) - malay , carving , ornaments , art , visual arts , meaning (existential) , aesthetics , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , style (visual arts)
Malay House can be identified from the shape, stage, saddle roof, and finials. Malay House roof typologies called Limas, Lontiok, Bagonjong, Kajang, Layar, and Crossbreed. The house also is enriched by ornaments and carved panel with a certain philosophy and meaning. One of unique Malay house is known as Kapitan house at Bagansiapiapi. This house also shows how Chinese house transforms into a unique Malay house. It can be seen from stage, roof, material, and wood ornament used. According to this phenomena, this paper investigates the Kapitan house to understand the meaning of the ornament and preserving Chinese-Malayness at the same time. The qualitative research approach was used to obtain data and information about this house. It is also added with the interview to descendants of the Kapitan. Field data is analyzed by comparison techniques to find variation and meaning of wood carving on the Kapitan house. The finding shows about layout and typologies of wood carving of the house. Usual Malay house ornament such as engraving panel on windows or another carving motif also can be figured on the house. These ornaments are combined with fauna figure usual used in Chinese house but are prohibited in Malay house.