Iron Ancestors: Kris Sajen, Kris Majapahit and Related Object Exhibition the people who settled the

the people who settled the islands of Southeast Asia had developed a philosophy for existence in a highly unpredictable world

The meaning is not an exaggeration

Megawati Soekarnoputri -at the time still Vice-President of the Republic of Indonesia

These sumptuous garments communicated a family's global contacts

Iron Ancestors: Kris Sajen, Kris Majapahit and Related Object Exhibition the people who settled theThis 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