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Champa were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century CE until 1832.
This Cham head of Shiva was made of electrum around 800. It decorated a kosa, or metal sleeve fitted to a liṅgam. One can recognise Shiva by the tall chignon hairstyle and by the third eye in the middle of his forehead.
Crown of Champa in 7th and 8th century. (Museum of Vietnamese History)
Depiction of a couple of highland man and Cham lady in the Boxer Codex from 1590
Pottery vase of the Sa Huỳnh culture, 1000 BC. The Sa Huỳnh people were the prehistoric ancestors of all Chamic peoples.
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The Chams, or Champa people, are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and Vietna
Champa
…Champa were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century CE until 1832. According…
Cham women performing a traditional dance in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Traditional Cham women's clothes
Depiction of Cham naval soldiers fighting against the Khmer, stone relief at the Bayon
The Chams decorated their temples with stone reliefs depicting the gods such as Garuda fighting the nāga (12th-13th century CE)