Dayak Pantak
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Details
| Item-Number: | 841004 |
| Item-Description: | Beautifully carved Dayak female ritual guardian figure or Pantak with outstreched arms |
| Medium: | Wood with Metal arm bands |
| Origin: | Borneo (Kalimantan) - Dayak Melawi |
| Dimensions: | Height 91 cm |
| Age: | 19th or very early 20th century |
| Provenance: | Field collected Borneo 1984 |
| Condition: | Weathered patina with lichen encrustatioms |
| Notes: | The outstretched arms are to recieve ancestral spirits; rare example as ritual figures of this type are more generally male |
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