Best museum of the trip.
Much needed info on the Batak tribe who live around Lake Toba in Sumatra, where we bought some carvings a few years ago - now we know what they are supposed to represent, or be - figures of ancestors, and a medicine box.
And, more stuff on Chinese Buddhism - the buddha Maityana (sp?) mentioned in my last post is seemingly not a mere recent invention. There are 1300 yr-old stelae with representations of the 'future Buddha' on display. Doesn't mean it's not all made up post-hoc (how can a bodhisattva predate Buddha), but at least some of tis fakery is genuine.
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