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The Art and Culture of Indonesia:
9th-20th centuries
Second floor, room 358
Art and culture of Indonesia is illustrated by specimens from Central
Java (ninth-eleventh centuries), Eastern Java (fourteenth-sixteenth
centuries) and Bali Island (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries). The collec-
tion comprises sculptural pieces-statues of Shiva, Vishnu, Gameshi,
etc., objects of cult practices-ceremonial masks and vessels, bronze
and wooden objects of artistic crafts, manuscripts, specimens of artistic-
ally coloured fabrics (batic) and examples of the Javanese national
weapon (kris).
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