Traditional Life: The Wider World (Borneo-Dayak Crafts

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Beyond, in the forest, spirits dwell everywhere, and man can only rely on the protective devices he carries with him; beads, amulets, and designs on pieces of clothing and equipment - or on himself, like tattoos.

Traditional Life: The Wider World

Opposed to the village is the outside world where uncontrolled spiritual forces reign. Man tries to ensure his safety and that of his crops by placing images of guardian spirits at strategic points of his usual working and travelling places: the fields and footpaths. Beyond, in the forest, spirits dwell everywhere, and man can only rely on the protective devices he carries with him; beads, amulets, and designs on pieces of clothing and equipment - or on himself, like tattoos.

At mountain passes, or at the feet of boulders or ancient trees, the dwellings of the spirits, he makes propitiating offerings. When dealing with human enemies, man needs even more magical protection. He relies on a wooden time-table to determine the most auspicious days and time for agriculture, hunting, and travelling.

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.

Borneo: An introduction on the island, Historical background of Borneo, The populations of Borneo.
The Indigenous peoples: Major ethnic groups, Conclusion to the Dayak tribes.
Bornean arts: The dragon and the underworld, The Tomb-Womb-Jar, The hornbill and the upperworld, The tree of life, The squatting slave and other anthropomorphs, The old tiger, The spirit ship, Plant and geometric motifs.