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David Jackson
Professor for Tibetan Studies at Hamburg University
The names written on thangka confirm the identities of most of the small figures, verifying that they probably represent the first Mongolian Jetsun Dampa (the monk-rulers of Mongolia) and his previous existences.
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Incarnation Lineage of the Mongolian Jetsun Dampa and Jonang Tāranātha
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Anna Mey
Ethnologist
This particular mask shows the mythical Singhalese King Narendra Singha Raja. The 10-cornered part with the male and female figures is a very particular feature which has no counterparts in known collections.
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Kolam Mask "Narendra Singha Raja"
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Tapan Kumar Das Gupta
Former research assistant at the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna
This Agni [relief] is so interesting because his meaning has changed so much in the course of the history of Indian thought. In the oldest literature, he was the most important god besides the great gods Indra and Varuna.
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Hong
Chinese visitor
Beyond words
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Nu Mra Zan
Museum professional
I have never found such kind of helmet, very unique
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Gérard Mermoz
Artist
The concept of masterpiece is problematic as it focuses our attention on the object and its supposed essence rather than on the ever changing significance it undergoes from the original time and context in which it was made and used to the successive contexts in which it is appropriated and put to different uses: as a collectable, a document, a work of art, etc. This process has been referred to as 'reification'. Philosophically this implements a form of 'essentialism' which situate meanining as 'in' the object rather than as projected by its 'owners', from the outside. From this perspective the 'cult of masterpieces' goes against an emancipated museography and museology and perpetuate the ideology of 'ART'.
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Sitting Bulul figure holding a bowl
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Kevin Nie
Chinese student
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Bowl shaped like a six-petal flower
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Lee Qing
Museum professional
I like this kind of special ornament. Very useful for prehistorical southeast asia study.
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Riemer Knoop
Museologist and museum consultant
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Clemens Kreimel
Archaeologist
I am currently working on an excavation site in the district Bo'ai in the Henan Province (Central China). Two tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) have been discovered. We found in a drainage pipe a 7-storey funerary sculpture and over 70 other objetcs on 24 June 2010.
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Painted pottery 7-storey funerary building with storehouse sculpture
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Rabitah Banati
Postgraduate student at Edinburgh University
It is a really interesting masterpiece concerning the Persian impact to Southeast Asia.
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Album of paper-cut nasta‘liq calligraphy
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Nathalie François
Photo Director, Prisma Presse (France)
It seems like little doll shoes.
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Ladies shoes, so called golden lilies, northern style
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Dominique Merlin
Cinematographer
Wrist guard (this is too long for thumb and wrist guard are usually used for shooting bow). Many of the masterpiece are so fine that it is not possible to favourite all of them. I regret that there is not many things about archery which was ans is so important in Orient.
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Jasper Griepink
Designer
This is my favorite masterpiece!
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Susanne Gruber
Letter to the establishment of an ethnographic museum in Munich.
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