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the woven cloth will be made into a harato heirloom basamo (a shared inheritance of a people) and stored in the Rumah Gadang (main house)
ISBN: 9786029166187
It had sunk
Through 21 years of field research
The covers show light general wear
Life, Death and Magic: 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art Peter Lee the woven cloth will beFor thousands of years, across mainland and island Southeast Asia, the deification of significant ancestors and the veneration of spirits of nature has formed the basis of traditional beliefs. These beliefs are in turn the impetus for the creation of splendid and extraordinary works of art in fibre, stone, metal, wood and clay made to protect and give pleasure to the living, to honour the ancestors and to secure safe passage for the human soul between
