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Title: Aspects of Indonesian Culture. Java-Sumatra. Foreword by Mr. and Mrs. Zainal Abidin (founders and chairmen Ganesha Society). 2nd. edn.
Description: Jakarta, Ganesha Society & Ganesha Volunteers, 1982. Small 8°, decorative stiff glossy wraps., 82pp., many text-ills.after drawings by Rosie Godfrey, 2 full-p. sketch-maps with keys (ethnic groups of Java and Sumatra), bibliography, name-lists of board-members, Ganesha Society Board and Ganesha Volunteers Board Members, table of contents. Speciments of arts & crafts as found in the Central Jakarta Museum, assisted by Ganesha Society and Volunteers, collated and described (:) Architecture (incl. Badui architecture), Sumatran Minangkabau Architecture, mosques, gamelan, wayang puppets, ships, silver, sirih sets, batik, textiles of Sumatra, kris, circumcision ceremony, Madura Bull-Racing Sleds, Batak Magic Wands, Si Gale Gale figures, Nias ancestral figures. In this 2nd. edition illustrations have been renewed and corrected. A very fine copy.

Keywords: art craft java sumatra wayang puppets batik textiles architecture museum collection ganesha volunteers indonesia southeast asia

Price: EUR 65.00 = appr. US$ 70.65 Seller: Antiquarian Booksellers Gemilang
- Book number: 43962