Vintage Japanese Haniwa Horse - Small furniture gives this Mantlet depth and

gives this Mantlet depth and class

a nice piece of affordable advertising from this era

Artist unknown

- Taken from the Natonal Archives

The Minangkabau people (meaning: victorious water-buffalo) are matrilineal people and such wedding costumes are passed down from mother to daughter

Vintage Japanese Haniwa Horse - Small furniture gives this Mantlet depth andJapanese Haniwa 'Circle of Clay' Hollowed terracotta clay figures and shapes of different significances were made as funerary objects during the Kofun period and beyond, either for ritual ceremonial use or to be buried with the dead to protect them in the afterlife and for marking burial site boundary markings. They are still used in burials or left at gravesides for protection. Horses were used in ceremonies and arranged neatly in lines, signifying a