HAND CARVED HUMAN BONE AND SHELL
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TROPHY SKULL # 20 |
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HAND CARVED HUMAN BONE AND SHELL |
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the indigenous people from the largely Malay population on the Indonesian island: Borneo. Most Dayaks are riverine people who live in small long house communities. Children live with their parents until marriage, and boys, who usually seek brides outside their own village, go to live in their wife's community. Their subsistence economies rest on the shifting cultivation of hill rice, supplemented by fishing and hunting. They number more than two million. The Dayaks are the native inhabitants of the central region of Borneo. They have occupied that area for thousands of years and have grown accustomed to the difficult living conditions deep within rain forests. They are a nomadic people who travel in set patterns where their hunted prey is located. THE DAYAK TRIBE, FROM BORNEO ISLAND INDONESIA, CARVE DESIGNS INTO THE SKULLS OF THEIR HEADHUNTED VICTIMS AND INSERT WOODEN FIGURES. THE DAYAK, IFUGAO, AND NAGA HUMAN SKULLS ARE HEAD HUNTING TROPHIES. THE ASMAT "ANCESTOR" SKULLS. THE DIFFERENCE IS; HEAD HUNTED SKULLS ARE ACQUIRED FROM ENEMY ANCESTOR SKULLS ARE COLLECTED AND VENERATED TO REMEMBER DECEASED FAMILY MEMBERS. THE IFUGAO COLLECT BONES OF DEAD RELATIVES; WRAP THEM IN TRIBAL TEXTILES, AND STORE THEM IN THE RAFTERS UNDER THEIR HUTS. HUMAN SKULLS AND SKULL CAPS FROM NEPAL ARE RITUAL OFFERTORY VESSELS THAT ARE USED AS DRINKING CUPS IN TIBETAN BUDDHIST CEREMONIES. |
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