Item #13141 THE ELOQUENT DEAD. Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. J. Feldman.

THE ELOQUENT DEAD. Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Los Angeles: 1985. 204 pages, 262 b/w and 22 color photographs, 8 drawings, 1 map. Soft cover, very good-fine condition. Item #13141

Elaborate, frighteningly beautiful ritual art objects relating to the dead in the cultures of Indonesia and Southeast Asia were exhibited in 1985 at the Museum of Cultural History. The more than 120 objects in the exhibition--few of which have previously been exhibited or published--illustrate the dominant role ancestor spirits play in the lives of the inhabitants of this region. The catalogue is strikingly attractive, and contains almost 300 large photographs of this funerary art and essays on ancestral arts of Nias, the Batak, the Dayak, Toraja, Biak, Paiwan, and the Yami.

Price: $225.00

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