OLD RARE MASQUE MASK DAYAK BAHOU TRIBAL BORNEO KALIMANTAN ETHNOGRAPHIC TWERKING

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OLD RARE MASQUE MASK DAYAK BAHOU TRIBAL BORNEO KALIMANTAN ETHNOGRAPHIC TWERKING:
$666.33

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AN OLD BAHOU DAYAK MASK

I am proud to offer this old and rare Dayak mask from Borneo Kalimantan, this fine pieces has a nice over all patina with tell tale signs of old attachments and altercations indicative and consistent with authentic well worn masks that have been used in numerous ceremonies.

with this in view I consider it museum worthy.

On the inside, one can see a beautiful old honey brown and dark patina no doubt due to it\'s having substantial age.

ESTIMATED sale VALUE $800.00 TO $1600.00

AN ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTABLE

please feel free to make offers, I will be happy to accept all reasonable ones

provenance: private collection Bali

Measures : 29 cm wide x 26 cm tall = 11.5\" x 10\" inches

It exhibits a beautiful patina with signs of extensive use, the inside shows a fine worn patina with attachments, a sure sign that this piece was made for and used by performers for traditional dance, an authentic ethnographic relic. This mask has been danced in numerous performances ; it is museum quality and it is guaranteed 100% authentic.

The Dayak Bahau people living along the Mahakam river basin perform their hudoq ritual usually in October and November, the time when they plant rice in the unirrigated rice fields.

Hanyak, 65, an elder from Mamahaq Besar village, Long Hubung district, West Kutai regency, said the hudoq dance was intended to accompany the soul of the paddy on its journey from the house to the rice field.

This annual rite must be performed in the most festive manner possible to ensure that the soul of the paddy will be pleased to stay in the rice field. The Bahau people believe that animals like deer, hogs, monkeys and birds bring paddy from heaven to them. The hudoq are designed to reflect these animals.

For the Dayak Bahau community along the Pariq River, the hudoq dance is performed every day for seven to 10 days ahead of the harvest. Each day a different hudoq dancer will appear. The climax of the hudoq festivity comes on the last day when all the hudoq dancers that have appeared before will again be seen.

Each hudoq dance requires different masks and accessories. In the Suh Doh hudoq, for example, the inheritor of a hudoq will have to harvest one kilogram of paddy from the rice field and keep it inside a piece of bamboo before the rite is performed. The hudoq rite will be performed for this paddy and at the end of the rite, the paddy will be distributed to the entire audience. Later, this paddy will be mixed with paddy seedlings that will be planted in the rice fields in the next year.

ethnic people of indonesia are diverse in culture and tradition, this fine old mask shows sign of extensive use thus making it authentic and an absolute good investment.

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one can only imagine all the lives this piece has touched , like in the movie, \"The Red Violin\"

we wish you a long life abundant of health wealth and wisdomI have been collecting tribal art and antiques for well over 25 years, my collecting trips have taken me to many distant countries, the artifacts of interest are authentic tribal and ethnographic implements used in divination and healing.

my travels have taken me to out of the way places where there are no cars or hotels, some of the remote places are only reachable by foot , so I often take long treks into the bush to find some of these rarepieces, but mostly its a question of being in the right place at the right time , my collectionconsistsof ethnographicmaterial from animist tribal peoples of Africa Asia and south East Asia

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