Dong Son drum

 Dong Son drum (rain drum)

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Đông Sơn drums (also called Heger Type I drums) are bronze drums fabricated by the Dong Son culture, in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. The drums are one of the culture's finest examples of metalworking.

The drums, cast in bronze using the lost wax method, are up to a 40 centimeter in height and weigh up to 10 kg. Dong Son drums were apparently both musical instruments and cult objects. They are decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of daily life and war, animals and birds, and boats. The latter alludes to the importance of trade to the culture in which they were made, and the drums themselves became objects of trade and heirlooms.

Double Head Drums from Riau (old)

Double Head Drums from Riau

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This drum is from Selat Panjang, Siak Sri Indrapura, Riau. It used to fixed the tone of music. It is made from wood, rattan and animal skin. Originally, the art of music in Riau was more functioned for religious activity and local beliefs. The medicine man or shaman played music during healing the disease or the expert in the conquering animals which will take the honey bee. The knowledge expanding and the entering of foreign cultural influence changed the music function, which nowadays more directed for the sake of social aspect. A kind of performing arts such as Mahidin, Hadrah, Kompang, traditional dance "Zapin" and traditional theatrical "Mak Yong" involve some music instruments such as tambourine (rebana), drum (marwas), gong, lute (gambus), accordion and violin during the performance.

Tavu

Tavu from Selaru

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This tavu altar is shaped like a human with gracefully extended arms and at the same time it is decorated with abstract spiral motifs. The arms were carved separately and added. Very few examples still exist today and are displayed only in a handful of European museums (example: http://masterpieces.asemus.museum/masterpiece/detail.nhn?objectId=11849).

This domestic altar, which evoked the body of an ancestor, supported one roof beam of the house. The tavu is a domestic altar dedicated to ancestors. It was placed opposite the front door. The wealth and prestigious assets passed down through a family were also included on the tavu. Certain animals may recall the deeds of the dwelling's founders. On a shelf above the altar lay the skulls of venerated ancestors, their first two vertebrae, and often their effigies. The tavu was an integral part of the notion of lineage and sacred power. It was a clear link between past and present, endowed with special spiritual power, a heritage of the "masters of the house". It was here that prayers and sacrifices were offered to encourage fertility in the people and in the harvest; to ensure success in fishing or headhunting expeditions; and to uphold the union between ancestors and their descendants.

Papua necklace

Papua necklace

Made from dog teeth.

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Antique tray

Antique tray

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Upuinai tavu from Tanimbar island

Upuinai Tavu from Tanimbar

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The fertility statue "upuinai' is a deity statue of the earth/moon. Fertility statues are female statues in the form of a "tree of life" and than carved in such a way until it has an anthropomorphic form, where the whole surface is covered by carvings of the symbol of fertility. Both arms stretched to the left and right and the tips of her fingers are flames of fire. Included in this classification are also the fertility carvings. Very fine and beautiful spiral carvings carved on a flat wooden surface.

Kinangan

Kinangan

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