The chief (standing right) and one of the other village leaders show off their ceremonial dress. The other Naga man has one of the red seed headdresses, as shown earlier post.
Tangkhul Tribe
Place - Lahe , Burma.
credit: Mark A.Johnson
Classic Naga face
with
a fantastic headdress
made with red seeds.
Tangkhul Tribe
Place- Lahe, Burma.
credit: Mark A.Johnson
Great necklaces!!
Shells,
bronze bells,
plaques,
beads,
brass heads,
and tiger teeth.
Nokaw tribe
Lahe , Burma.
credit; Mark A.Jhonson
Beautiful tattoos,
earplugs made with horn,
wood and shell hair plank,
nice hat with boar tusks.
Lower Konyak or Wancho tribe
Place- Lahe, Burma,
credit : Mark A. Johnson, who is the best in tribal art collector, researcher and dealer for SEA tribal art.
Weaved Rattan attached with monkey skull, decorated with boar tusks on each side and feather on top.
Kylyo-Kengyu Tribe,
From Burma (Myanmar), 15th century AD
Height: 20.000 inches
Gift of Cyril Newman
Current Location: British Museum, London
Asia OA 1965.12-17.1
Demons from the army of Mara defeated by the Buddha
This glazed ceramic plaque depicts two ass-headed demons from the army of the god of death, Mara. While the Buddha was meditating under the bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya, Mara sought to prevent him from attaining enlightenment. He sent armies of demons to dislodge the Buddha by force, and his beautiful daughters to try and tempt the Buddha from this meditation. Finally, the Buddha called upon the Earth-goddess to witness his claim to enlightenment. The Earth shook and Mara fled. Seated Buddha images touching the earth (bhumisparshamudra) refer to this event, and are very popular in Burmese and Thai art from the eleventh century.
Glazed pottery tiles were used on temples at the Burmese capital at Pagan (about 1044-1287). They depicted scenes from both the jatakas (the stories of the previous lives of the Buddha) and the Buddha's life. This tile is of the type placed in niches at the Shwegugyi pagoda at Pegu, built in the later fifteenth century in lower Burma. Other tiles depict pairs of women who came to seduce the Buddha, illustrating the events described above. Pegu was the capital of the Mon kingdom of lower Burma between 1369 and 1539. The Shwegugyi temple and its shrines was built to replicate the topography of the Mahabodhi temple at Bodhgaya, the site of the Buddha's enlightenment. It was one a number of copies of the Mahabodhi temple built in Burma and Thailand between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.
W. Zwalf (ed.), Buddhism: art and faith (London, The British Museum Press, 1985)
Silver ingot
Burma (Myanmar),
18th century AD
Diameter:
57.000 mm Weight: 101.500 g
Current Location-British Museum, London
CM 1892-10-8-11
Gift of Major R.C. Temple
Flower money
During the 18th century the monetary system in Burma was based on weighed amounts of silver. The currency was made by merchants under licence from the king. The most common form of silver ingot was a disc with flowery patterns across its upper surface. This pattern was formed by the cooling process used after the ingots were cast: the silversmith blew on each disc through a straw and the pattern only formed if the silver was of sufficient purity. In this way the flowery pattern was a mark of pure silver. The silver flower ingots were not made to be of a particular weight, but were used in payments according to their weight. If the ingot was too large, it was simply cut to size. If too small, extra pieces of silver were cut from another ingot. J. Williams (ed.), Money: a history (London, The British Museum Press, 1997)
