Music and Dance
Kendang Drums: Rhythm and Leadership in Indonesian Ensemble Music
Explore kendang construction and musical leadership through Central Javanese drums, Sundanese Jaipongan, and Balinese gong kebyar.
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- Manuscripts and Literature
Kawi Script and Old Javanese: Writing, Literature, and Power in Early Java
Explore Kawi script and Old Javanese through inscriptions, land grants, court poetry, and the manuscript traditions that preserved early Java's written heritage.
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Korwar Ancestor Figures of Cenderawasih Bay
Meet the korwar figures of Cenderawasih Bay through their carved forms, ancestral relationships, regional differences, and changing lives in museums.
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Kujang: Sundanese Blade, West Java Emblem and Historical Evidence
The kujang is a distinctive Sundanese blade from West Java; its form, heirloom use and civic symbolism require different kinds of historical evidence.
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