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Champasak Historical Heritage Museum

TIME : 2016/2/17 14:46:30

This museum features ancient Dong Son bronze drums, a 7th-century Siam-style sandstone buddha head, and a textile and jewellery collection from the Nyaheun, Suay and Laven groups, interesting for its large iron ankle bracelets and ivory ear plugs. Also on display are musical instruments, stelae in Tham script dating from the 15th to 18th centuries, a small lingam (Shiva phallus), a scale model of Wat Phu Champasak, and some American UXOs (unexploded ordnances).