Islands and ancestors : indigenous styles of Southeast Asia
Entry/Object ID
N7311.I85 1988
Description
Published in conjunction with a two-part exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Majority of the objects shown are drawn from the collection of Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Toby Volkman, Charles Zerner
Notes
Gift of Toby Volkman and Charles Zerner, March 2026.
Lexicon
Search Terms
art--southeast asia--exhibitions, material culture--southeast asia--exhibitions
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalog
Book Details
Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Musée barbier-mueller
Editor
Douglas Newton, Jean-Paul Barbier
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
1988
ISBN
3791308998
Notes
Length: 362 pages
General Notes
Note Type
contents
Note
Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Reflections in Bronze : Lapita and Dong-son Art in Western Pacific / Douglas Newton -- Autochthonous Peoples of Central Vistnam / Jaques Dournes -- The Seat of the Ancestors in The Homeland of The Nias People / Jerome Feldman -- A Stone Rider of the Batak of Sumatra / Jean Paul Barbier -- The Dayak of Borneo : On the Abcestors, the Dead and the Living / Nicole Revel-MacDonald -- The mamasa and Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi / Clementine H.M. Nooy-Palm -- Flores : Cosmology, Art and Ritul / Maribeth Erb -- Arts and Cultures of Sumba / Janet Hoskins -- Art and Religion on Timor / David Hicks -- Tanimbar Boats / Susan McKinnon -- Ifugao Art / George R. Ellis -- Notes On A Wooden House-Post of Budai Paiwan / CHen Chi-lu.
