Author: BARBIER, J.P.,
Title: En Pays Toba: Les Lambeaux de la Tradition. Orig. edn.
Description: Genève, Musée Barbier-Müller, 1982. Orig. limp wraps, coloured illustration on front boards. 237pp., coloured frontisp., coloured & plain plates, text-ills., extendin genealogical table, notes to chapters, index, 2 sketch-maps of which 1 double-p., bibliography, table of contents. Results of five years visits to Northern Sumatra. The author describes extensively the Toba-Batak civilisation. Ills. depict. atone-carvings & implements, dress, decorated houses, &c. A classic on the subject. First french text-edition. Very fine copy.

Keywords: toba batak sumatra ethnology ethnography history indonesia southeast asia art craft