Borneo's Dayak handicraft, the beauty of ancient tribal arts and handmade crafts
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Fishermen use hook and line, throwing- and casting-nets, and fish traps. Brass and even gold fishhooks were manufactured in the Apo Kayan. A huge sophisticated fish-trap, mihing, existed on the Kahayan river.

Traditional Life: River and Forest


Rituals to enhance luck in hunting are often held and spirit images carved. Hunters employ a variety of traps and snares and the dangerous belantik or bengkasan - a spear-trap for deer and boar. Some groups flank the belantik with a stick carved into a squatting figure meant to attract game.

Fishermen use hook and line, throwing- and casting-nets, and fish traps. Brass and even gold fishhooks were manufactured in the Apo Kayan. A huge sophisticated fish-trap, mihing, existed on the Kahayan river. In highland regions, collective fishing with tuba root poison involves the whole village. A bow and special arrows were utilized in certain regions for fishing, hinting at a possible wider distribution of the bow in Borneo prior to the advent of iron that allowed for drilling of the blowpipe.

Art in traditional life: People at home, Household arts and crafts, Clothes and textiles, Personal adornment, The wider world, The fields, River and forest, Trade, War, headhunting, and sacrifice, Traditional religion, Of Gods and men, Life and ritual, Sickness and shamanism, Death and funeral art, Primary funerals, Secondary funerals, The living and the death.