Textiles and the Tai Experience in Southeast Asia

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Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gittinger, Mattiebelle

Lefferts, H. Leedom

Crafts & Hobbies

Textile Museum

This richly illustrated, full-colour volume offers an innovative study of the long, painted scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Laos that depictthe Prince Vessantara Buddhist birth story. A 31-metre scroll in the Asian Civilisations Museum provides the focus for this popular narrative. The scroll is reproduced in its entirety, with comparative illustrations from other scrolls. The authors analyze these scrolls in the context of the Bun Phra Wet – the Thai-Lao and Lao ceremony in which they are used – and consider the complex interplay of text, art, ritual, and belief which occur in these performances.

Buddhist Storytelling in Thailand and Laos: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll and the Asian Civilisations Museum

Arts & Photography

Tossa, Wajuppa

Cate, Sandra

History & Criticism

Asian Civilisations Museum

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