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Naga - Jewelry and Ashes

The Naga lived in the hills of northern India and told about their lives and their world not with ink and paper, but in a coded system of textile patterns, JEWELRY design or wood carvings -that only they could understand.

Things of impressive aesthetics were told about positions in society or about enemies that were defeated. But this old vocabulary was forgotten; the jewelry crumbled to ASHES. In this exhibition, objects and memories from ancient times are given a voice again.

 

Client 
KHM Weltmuseum
Service 
Ausstellungsbau
Location 
Vienna
Year 
2012
Project Team 
Kuration: Christian Schicklgruber
Gestaltung: Arno Grünberger
Photocredit 
Karlo Barber