New Exhibit (Pacific Asia Museum)

What Stays Behind to be Remembered

An Exhibition in Memory of the
Indian Ocean Tsunami Victims

February 16 to May 15, 2005

Head fragment Sri Lanka

Head fragment Sri Lanka
2nd/3rd C. Terra cotta
Pacific Asia Museum Collection
Gift of Mark Phillips and Iuliana Phillips
2001.56.44
Photo by Julian Bermudez

As a memorial to the victims of the catastrophic tsunami that hit many regions of Asia in December 2004, Pacific Asia Museum has organized a small exhibition of art works from some of the regions most heavily affected. The exhibit focuses on the themes of healing, hope and rebuilding and features art objects from some of the religious traditions of the regions that are used by the people to help them deal with disaster, loss and transition.

The Buddha
Thailand, Ayudhya period (1350-1769 AD)
Bronze
Pacific Asia Museum Collection
Gift of Edward Nagel, 1984.90.8
Photo by Julian Bermudez
Included in the Tsunami Memorial exhibition

These objects include stone and bronze Buddhist figures from Sri Lanka, symbolic textiles from Sumatra in Indonesia, and Buddhist and Hindu items from India, Indonesia, Thailand and Burma/Myanmar. The exhibition is organized with the input of representatives of some of the spiritual traditions of these regions.

Head fragment Sri Lanka

Head fragment Sri Lanka
Anuradhapura period, 2nd/3rd C.
Terra cotta
Pacific Asia Museum Collection
Gift of Mark Phillips and Iuliana Phillips
2001.56.40
Photo by Julian Bermudez

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