Iron Ancestors: Kris Sajen, Kris Majapahit and Related Object Exhibition The meaning is not an

The meaning is not an exaggeration

based on Hendra's paintings

Publication date: 1997

These sumptuous garments communicated a family's global contacts

Iron Ancestors: Kris Sajen, Kris Majapahit and Related Object Exhibition The meaning is not anThis book is about the Iron Ancestors, these remarkable objects, amulets rather than weapons, material witnesses of an ancestor cult that permeates many phases of Indonesian culture from the earliest times to the present. The main group and the relatively best known embodies the all iron kris with a stylized human being as its hilt. But this book includes other objects, even less known, most of which have found only scant mention in difficult to