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The nearly 300 precious works shown here are artifacts of a once-flourishing jewellery tradition. The first book to examine the rich jewellery traditions of the Batak people in Indonesia is a gorgeous tribute to a vanishing way of life. Batak jewellery is characterised by a wide variety of materials and forms, and has many functions: Jewels can be status symbols, badges of rank, attributes of membership of a certain age group, amulets and talismans, or simply ornaments. Men, women, small children, and even babies were once adorned with gold, silver, brass, bronze, or the gold-and-copper alloy known as suasa. Today, the Batak wear traditional jewellery only for celebrations like weddings, and these stunning works are rapidly disappearing, being melted down or sold.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9788874396269
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 192
- Utgivningsdatum: 2012-04-20
- Förlag: Five Continents Editions