"Audiobook Gold, Silver & Brass: Jewellery of the Batak in Sumatra, Indonesia
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• The nearly 300 precious works shown here are artifacts of a once-flourishing jewelry tradition The first book to examine the rich jewelry traditions of the Batak people in Indonesia is a gorgeous tribute to a vanishing way of life. Batak jewelry is characterized 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, ass, onze, or the gold-and-copper alloy known as suasa. Today, the Batak wear traditional jewelry only for celeations like weddings, and these stunning works are rapidly disappearing, being melted down or sold.
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