Gold, Silver & Brass: Jewellery of the Batak in Sumatra, Indonesia

by Achim Sibeth

-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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8874396260
• ISBN13: 9788874396269
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.6" x 12.0"