Indonesian sculpture dates back to the stone, bronze and iron ages and can be found across archaeological sites in Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, depicting ancestors, deities and animals. Notable sculptures include wooden works from the Asmat, Dayak, and Toraja peoples as well as totem-like sculptures from the Batak and Nias tribes. Famous historical sculptures include extensive stone reliefs at Borobudur temple in Central Java depicting hundreds of Buddhas and relief scenes.

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11. Indonesia
OIndonesia is known for its stone,
bronze, and iron aged arts.

13. O The sculpture can be found in numerous
archaeological sites in Sumatra, Java to
Sulawesi.

14. O Native Indonesian tribes usually create
sculptures that depict ancestors, deities
and animals.

15. What are the most
amazing Sculpture in
Indonesia?
1. Asmat – wooden sculpture of Papua
2. Dayak - wooden mask and sculpture
3. Ancestral Wooden Sculpture of Toraja
4. Totem- like Sculpture of Batak and
Nias tribe

16. Asmat

17. Dayak

18. . Ancestral Wooden Sculpture of Toraja

19. Totem- like Sculpture

20. From the classical Hindu-Buddhist,
the Most Prominent sculpture are:
O Hundreds of meters
of relief
O Hundreds of stone
Buddha at the
temple of
Borobudur in
Central Java

21. What are the popular souvenir
items in Indonesia for tourist?
O Balinese Handicrafts:
- Sculptures
- Masks
- Other carving artworks
The Jepara wood carving are famous for
their elaborately carved wooden furnitures,
folding screens, and also
pelaminangebyok

22. elaborately carved wooden furnitures

23. folding
screens

24. pelaminangebyok

33. RELIEF SCULPTURES are sculptures
that rely on a base or plane to support
them.

34. Main Types of Relief Sculpture
1. Alto Form
– almost completely carved from its
surface
-- highly shaped with very little of the
structure touching the base or plane
-- could possibly stand alone
-- common among Greeks and
Romans

36. 2. Bas Form
-- a relief that barely extends past the base
-- common as wall decorations on Greek or
Roman buildings

37. 3. Sunken relief Sculpture
-- an image that is carved into the
surface, rather than out of it.

38. O The best Malay wood Carving is from
Terengganu and Kelatan.
O Passed down from one generation to another, the
craft is divided into:
1. Ukiranhalus (fane carving) – Involves
carving of relief patterns, hilts of keris, bed
heads and cupboard tops.
2. Ukirankasar (literally meaning “ rough
carving”) – refers on carving to larger objects
like furniture, pillars, windows, room portions,
and eaves of roots.
O Cengal is the preferred wood for building houses
and boats.

39. Ukiranhalus

40. Ukirankasar

41. Cengal

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