Author: DJOHANI-LAPIAN, H. - W. GRONERT, M. KLEINE (ET AL./EDITORIAL COMMITTEE),
Title: Nias Tribal Treasures. Cosmic reflections in Stone, Wood and Gold. Orig. edn.
Description: Delft, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, 1990. Small 4°., original limp glossy wrappers, large coloured illustration (an ancestor altar: Osa'Osa) on front wrapper. 325pp. 8 coloured plates, many black/white illustrations in text and plates, with extensive technical descriptions, illustrations after line-drawings and diagrams in text, full-page sketch-map of Nias Island, biographies, table of illustrations with catalogue, bibliography, glossary, table of contents, acknowledgements. English text edition, summaries in dutch to chapters. Publication and exhibition organized upon the 125th anniversary of the Delft Anthropological Museum Nusantara, ethnographica for the first time ever displayed, covering the vanishing of the Nias cultural heritage due to modern developments. A lavishly illustrated 'catalogue' with expert text and descriptions of objects displayed as (:) traditional sculptures, jewelry in gold, small golden statues, ancestor carvings, ceremonial cloths, weapons, &c. Very fine copy.

Keywords: nias sumatra tribal cultura art craft cultural heritage cultuurbezit history colonialism indonesia southeast asia