Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Open-air ethnology grounds with reconstructed stilt houses, longhouses, and a Jarai tomb ringed with carved funerary statues.
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This guide to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi walks through a Jarai tomb house from the highlands of Gia Lai, ringed with thirty carved wooden figures, and the leaving-of-the-grave ritual by which a family builds it, then walks away for good and lets it decay. It follows five Jrai men from Mrong Ngo village who travelled to Hanoi in 1998 to build this exact replica. Look closely at the carvings around the fence for what they show about grief and family.
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