A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.
Dimensions
Length 19.6 cm
Diameter 4.9 cm
Weight
82 grams
Materials
Bamboo, wood, rattan, stone, cotton thread
Origin
Dayak
Borneo, Indonesia
Dating
19th century
Provenance
From a Dutch private collection
Price €700, -
Description
A Dayak container made of a segment of bamboo. It is carved with designs of aso, a dog-dragon of Dayak mythology.
The lid is made of wood, with a face carved on top. The lid is connected to the container by means of a loop that passes through two holes at the bottom of the container, through two rattan loops on the open end, and then through two holes in the cover itself. A carved stone serves as a toggle.
With the characteristic carved face hilt and the rarer "sarong seltoep" scabbard.
€1800,-
An understated, elegant khukuri of substantial proportions with fine layered blade.
€2200,-
With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.
€1800,-
Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.
€1800,-
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.
€3200,-