Catalogue LS-235

Ngaju

Region
Kalimantan, Central Borneo, Indonesia
Culture
Ngaju
Object type
Household item
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Materials

Wood

Size

Not recorded

Description

Hampatong, Sculpture of a woman, holding betel box (see "Hornbill and Dragon", figure 430 in page 244, or figure 451 in page 249). This statue is part of a post to which the sacrificial water buffalo was tied. Wood in poor condition due to rain. Central Borneo (Ot Danum?), 1800 (according to Tatiana).