Hoi An Museum
Fired clay burial jars and coastal artifacts tracing over two thousand years of settlement along a river-mouth trading town.
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This guide to the Hoi An Museum follows the strange discovery of the Sa Huynh burial jars, starting with a French surveyor's crew striking clay near An Khe marsh in 1909. It traces how a customs official's wife and later the archaeologist Madeleine Colani kept unearthing more jars along this coast, and how Colani named the culture after the district where it began. The jars themselves, packed with ash and small ornaments rather than bodies, belonged to maritime traders working this shore a thousand years before Hoi An existed. Standing before them, you're left with the same open question the guide poses about why they chose this way to bury their dead.
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