Wetarese

The Wetarese are the Austronesian islanders of the Barat Daya chain between Timor and the Banda Sea, on Wetar, Leti, Babar and Damar, whose Timoric tongues, including the four Wetarese varieties of Wetar, are kin to Galoli of Timor. Sago farmers, fishers and traders who venerated ancestors through yene statues, they later stood within the Dutch colonial sphere in Maluku.