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Coming Soon! Southeast Asia:
Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand
Opening September 3, 2010
The Mariposa Museum opens its exhibition on Southeast Asia on September 3. A performance from Bali highlights our September calendar. Chi Potter also returns with her students of Vietnamese dance. The month of October will focus especially on Cambodia, with programs on the Cambodian dance by Eleanor Briggs, George Chigas and Julie Mallozzi, and an evening with the Angkor Dance Troupe of Lowell at the Peterborough Town House on October 30. The Hmong community of Fitchburg will also share their music and song with us in October. Two Filipino performing groups from the Boston area will appear in November, first Dance Philippines, then the Iskwelahang Pilipino Rondalla Ensemble (a rondalla is an ensemble of mandolin or "bandurria" and guitar). Please check our website for other events and go to http://www.mariposamuseum.org/e-news_signup.html to sign up for our monthly e-news.
Cambodian crown
A Cambodian dancer wears this crown as she dances the role of Sita or another heroine in the Hindu epic, the Reamker or Ramayana. She might also be portraying an apsara, a celestial dancer, in a dance like the Blessing Dance. The walls of the massive temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia display 1,796 magnificent relief carvings of these sacred women.
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Sarimanok bird
The Maranao, or "People of the Lake," live in the region of Lake Lanao on Mindanao, the predominantly Muslim island at the southern end of the Philippine archipelago. In Maranao belief, this bird, the "sarimanok", is a medium to the spirit world through an unseen twin spirit bird. "Manok" means "chicken" in many Filipino languages, but this is no ordinary chicken!
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Mouse musicians
These mouse musicians celebrate a festival as they move across the surface of the water in front of a stage anchored in the shallows of a Vietnamese village pond. They are water puppets, manipulated by puppeteers standing up to their waist in water behind a screen that hides them from the viewers. Water puppets are unique to Vietnam, a tradition that goes back over 1,000 years in the Red River delta of northern Vietnam and is rooted in the tradition of rice culture in flooded paddies.
You can read more about water puppets at websites such as www.thingsasian.com and
www.vietscape.coml, and you will find an outstanding collection at the Mariposa Museum. They are part of our permanent collection and will be on special display.
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Ifugao
The northern mountains of Luzon in the Philippines are home to six ethnolinguistic tribes and over 300 varieties of rice grown in the largest irrigated rice terraces in the world. One of these tribes is the Ifugao. Here two Ifugao stand together, he wearing a rain cape and a feather headdress.
Traditionally, the culture of the Ifugaos has been intimately connected with the cultivation of rice. Twelve rice rituals, performed by the native priests, define the Ifugao agrarian calendar. These rituals, conducted throughout the rice growing cycle, help maintain the balance the Ifugaos have with their environment and help ensure a bountiful harvest. For more on the rice culture of the Cordillera, visit the website of Eighth Wonder: www.heirloomrice.com
Rice is central to the cultures of Southeast Asia and will be highlighted in Mariposa's exhibit on this region.
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When children are raised with respect and curiosity towards
other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war.
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