Material: Wood, bamboo
Style: Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Length 109 cm, Width  32 cm, Height  49 cm
Order Number: AKLM1

Dayak is the name applied to a number of very different peoples  living on the island of Kalimantan, but also elsewhere. They share some common characteristics. They live in longhouses, situated mostly on navigable rivers. They were rice farmers, living simple lives, but staging large religious ceremonies, which involved large feasts.

A Dayak longhouse  is an imposing structure, sometimes over 200 metres long, on stilts.

The longhouse houses dozens of Dayak family apartments and public spaces for social life, including cooking, blacksmithing and ceremonies.

A person’s primary allegiance is to his longhouse. There is a long, straight corridor. A row of doors on one side of the corridor lead to individual family apartments. Ladders on the other side lead down to the ground. There’s an outdoor porch and a place for drying rice, mending nets, drying laundry and other occupations.

Early – mid 20th century.

Map of Kalimantan.

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