Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture

This guide to the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture follows a 1930 workshop scene, where stonemasons join two sandstone pieces French archaeologists had dug up separately near Tra Kieu decades apart: an intricately carved base and a plain rounded lingam. It traces what each piece meant on its own, from Rama's wedding archery contest carved into the base to the lingam's older role as an emblem of Shiva, and how Cham priests once used such altars in ritual. Look closely at how confidently the museum presents the pairing as one ancient whole.