Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 19 cm,  from bottom of stand to top 30 cm, Width 15 cm
Order Number: MHSABTD1

80-90 years.

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Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 19 cm,  from bottom of stand to top 38 cm, Width 12 cm
Order Number: MHSABTD2

80-90 years.

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Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 20 cm,  from bottom of stand to top 33 cm, Width 14 cm
Order Number: MHSABTD3

80-90 years.

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Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 19 cm,  from bottom of stand to top 29 cm, Width 14 cm
Order Number: MHSABTD4

80-90 years.

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Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 18.5 cm,  from bottom of stand to top 35 cm, Width 11 cm
Order Number: MHSABTD5

80-90 years.

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Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 22 cm,  from bottom of stand to top 34 cm, Width 15 cm
Order Number: MHSABTD6

80-90 years.

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Material: Wood
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 40.5 cm Width 12 cm (elbow to elbow)
Order Number: MHSABTD7

Dewi Sri, Balinese Rice Goddess.

Early – mid 20th century.

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Material: Wood
Style: China
Size: Height 16.5 cm, Width 5.5 cm, Depth 5 cm
Order Number: MHSACS1

These ancestral figurines are carved in a soft wood generally used for caring statues and figurines. Both male and female figures are seated and dressed in officials’ robes.

The formal postures and costumes are similar to that of ancestor portraits painted on silk and paper. The ancestral figurines function in the same way: capturing the likeness and spirit of the deceased.

Descendants paid respect to these figures and offered them joss sticks, flowers and fruit. They were placed on the domestic altar and venerated daily.

As early as the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) sculptural images of one’s parents were already in existence.

70–80 years old.

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Material: Wood
Style: Java, Indonesia (Savo 1)
Size: Length 262 cm, Height 250 cm, Depth 143 cm
Order Number: MHSAIF1

Chinese Wedding beds can be simple or elaborately carved. They are sometimes called canopy beds. They are like a small enclosed room on a raised platform. They are ideal daybeds. We use them in several of our rooms at Murni’s Houses & Spa.

The style of these antique beds varies greatly, with the most ornate having extensive detailed carvings, according to the region they were made, as well as the status of the owner.

Loro Blonyo figures are traditionally placed by such a bed along with cosmetic containers, jewelry boxes and decorative mirrors.

There is a similar one in Arts and Crafts of Indonesia, Anne Richter, Thames and Hudson 1993, page 67.

60-70 years old.

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Material: Wood
Style: Java, Indonesia (Savo 2)
Size: Length 223 cm, Height 205 cm, Depth 131 cm
Order Number: MHSAIF2

Chinese Wedding beds can be simple or elaborately carved. They are sometimes called canopy beds. They are like a small enclosed room on a raised platform. They are ideal daybeds. We use them in several of our rooms at Murni’s Houses & Spa.

The style of these antique beds varies greatly, with the most ornate having extensive detailed carvings, due to the region they were made, as well as the status of the owner.

Loro Blonyo figures are traditionally placed by such a bed along with cosmetic containers, jewelry boxes and decorative mirrors.

There is a similar one in Arts and Crafts of Indonesia, Anne Richter, Thames and Hudson 1993, page 67.

60-70 years old.

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Material: Wood
Style: Java, Indonesia
Size: Length 242 cm, Height 221 cm, Depth 142 cm
Order Number: MHSAIF3

Chinese Wedding beds can be simple or elaborately carved. They are sometimes called canopy beds. They are like a small enclosed room on a raised platform. They are ideal daybeds. We use them in several of our rooms at Murni’s Houses & Spa.

The style of these antique beds varies greatly, with the most ornate having extensive detailed carvings, due to the region they were made, as well as the status of the owner.

Loro Blonyo figures are traditionally placed by such a bed along with cosmetic containers, jewelry boxes and decorative mirrors.

There is a similar one in Arts and Crafts of Indonesia, Anne Richter, Thames and Hudson 1993, page 67.

60-70 years old.

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Material: Wood
Style: Java, Indonesia
Size: Length 265 cm, Height 224 cm, Depth 159 cm
Order Number: MHSAIF4

Chinese Wedding beds can be simple or elaborately carved. They are sometimes called canopy beds. They are like a small enclosed room on a raised platform. They are ideal daybeds. We use them in several of our rooms at Murni’s Houses & Spa.

The style of these antique beds varies greatly, with the most ornate having extensive detailed carvings, due to the region they were made, as well as the status of the owner.

Loro Blonyo figures are traditionally placed by such a bed along with cosmetic containers, jewelry boxes and decorative mirrors.

There is a similar one in Arts and Crafts of Indonesia, Anne Richter, Thames and Hudson 1993, page 67.

60-70 years old.

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Material: Wood
Style: Java, Indonesia
Size: Length 254 cm, Height 238 cm, Depth 156 cm
Order Number: MHSAIF5

Chinese Wedding beds can be simple or elaborately carved. They are sometimes called canopy beds. They are like a small enclosed room on a raised platform. They are ideal daybeds. We use them in several of our rooms at Murni’s Houses & Spa.

The style of these antique beds varies greatly, with the most ornate having extensive detailed carvings, due to the region they were made, as well as the status of the owner.

Loro Blonyo figures are traditionally placed by such a bed along with cosmetic containers, jewelry boxes and decorative mirrors.

There is a similar one in Arts and Crafts of Indonesia, Anne Richter, Thames and Hudson 1993, page 67.

60-70 years old.

Please ask for the price (or make an offer).

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Material: Brass
Style: Dayak, Borneo (Kalimantan), Indonesia
Size: Height 6.5 cm, Width 3 cm
Order Number: MHSADE1

Many Dayak cultures live in Kalimantan. They live in long houses, wear feather headdresses, tattoo their bodies, and wear heavy earrings, which extend their earlobes by four or five inches. Extended earlobes are a sign of beauty.

Big earrings on elongated earlobes were a sign that a woman  was marriageable.

There is a similar pair of earrings in the Collection of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Geneva shown in Power and Gold, Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, Prestel-Verlag, 1985, page 280 and a photograph from The Sarawak Museum showing a lady with elongated earlobes wearing a pair on page 117.

19th century or early 20th century.

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Material: Wood
Style: Java, Indonesia
Size: Length 48 cm, Width 12 cm, Depth 1.75 cm
Order Number: MHSAJC1

The head of the calendar is in the shape of a wayang – shadow puppet.

Early – mid 20th century.

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Material: Beads
Style: Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Length 32 cm, Width 26.5 cm
Order Number: E4A

This original piece from a babycarrier is slightly damaged. The Dayak communities of Kalimantan, which is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, have been making excellent beadwork for centuries.

The babycarrier is a reedwork basket to carry a young baby, although some mothers carry two or three year olds in them. Young infants tend to be carried in the front to make breast feeding easy in the early months and older ones on the back.

Curling representations of human figures are a common theme. Others contain geometric motifs. Patterned beadwork is also used in necklaces, clothing, caps, hats, vests, tunics, baby carriers and ritual objects.

The outer part of the baby carrier of the Dayak people was adorned with a symmetrical beadwork panel depicting mirror images. The beauty was thought to attract good spirits and bring good luck to the child.

The design indicated the family’s social position.  The highest ranks could use full-figure human figures, dragons and tigers (although tigers do not exist in Borneo). Lesser ranks could only use animal motifs and geometric shapes.

Aristocrats might decorate the baby carrier with a leopard’s tooth. Large beads, bells and animal teeth might decorate the upper rim. The tinkling sound would soothe the baby.

After the baby no longer needed the basket, it was stored away carefully for the next one. The beadwork and ornaments would be detached and kept safe.

Early-mid 20th century.

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Material: Beads
Style: Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Length 33.5 cm, Width 26 cm
Order Number: E4B

This original piece is from a babycarrier. 

The Dayak communities of Kalimantan, which is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, have been making excellent beadwork for centuries.

The babycarrier is a reedwork basket to carry a young baby, although some mothers carry two or three year olds in them. Young infants tend to be carried in the front to make breast feeding easy in the early months and older ones on the back.

Curling representations of human figures are a common theme. Others contain geometric motifs. Patterned beadwork is also used in necklaces, clothing, caps, hats, vests, tunics, baby carriers and ritual objects.

The outer part of the baby carrier of the Dayak people was adorned with a symmetrical beadwork panel depicting mirror images. The beauty was thought to attract good spirits and bring good luck to the child.

The design indicated the family’s social position.  The highest ranks could use full-figure human figures, dragons and tigers (although tigers do not exist in Borneo). Lesser ranks could only use animal motifs and geometric shapes.

Aristocrats might decorate the baby carrier with a leopard’s tooth. Large beads, bells and animal teeth might decorate the upper rim. The tinkling sound would soothe the baby.

After the baby no longer needed the basket, it was stored away carefully for the next one. The beadwork and ornaments would be detached and kept safe.

About 70-80 years old.

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Material: Beads
Style: Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Length 38.5 cm, Width 13.5 cm
Order Number: MHGAB1

This original piece is from a babycarrier. 

The Dayak communities of Kalimantan, which is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, have been making excellent beadwork for centuries.

The babycarrier is a reedwork basket to carry a young baby, although some mothers carry two or three year olds in them. Young infants tend to be carried in the front to make breast feeding easy in the early months and older ones on the back.

Curling representations of human figures are a common theme. Others contain geometric motifs. Patterned beadwork is also used in necklaces, clothing, caps, hats, vests, tunics, baby carriers and ritual objects.

The outer part of the baby carrier of the Dayak people was adorned with a symmetrical beadwork panel depicting mirror images. The beauty was thought to attract good spirits and bring good luck to the child.

The design indicated the family’s social position.  The highest ranks could use full-figure human figures, dragons and tigers (although tigers do not exist in Borneo). Lesser ranks could only use animal motifs and geometric shapes.

Aristocrats might decorate the baby carrier with a leopard’s tooth. Large beads, bells and animal teeth might decorate the upper rim. The tinkling sound would soothe the baby.

After the baby no longer needed the basket, it was stored away carefully for the next one. The beadwork and ornaments would be detached and kept safe.

Early 20th century.

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Material: Bark, ink, wood
Style: Batak people, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Size: Cover: Height 30 cm, Width 18.5 cm
Order Number: MHSASBB1

Portrait of a datu with divination book, medicine horn and magic staff, photographer unknown, 1929/1929. From the collection of the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Batak people are Indonesia’s largest ethnic minority group with over 6 million people. They live around Lake Toba in Sumatra. There are 6 ethnic groups with different languages and customs and they all believe they are descended from a common ancestor called Si Raja Batak.

Their religion centred around Batak datu priests, who had magical powers and held totem pole staffs, curved horns holding magical substances, and folding books full of spells. Their chief duty was to protect the individual, family and village from black magic and malevolent forces through rituals, concoctions, statues and amulets.

In 1866 the Lutheran German missionary Ludwig Nommensen converted most of the  Bataks.

These exotic books are called pustaha by the Bataks. They were written on bark with wooden covers by the Batak datu.  There are 5 Batak languages with 3 sub-groups, but the script of each is similar.

They are actually made from the bast of the alim tree, which is removed in long strips, smoothed and covered with rice flour paste. The strips are cut and folded into a concertina. The two ends are glued to the wooden covers. The ink is made from several resins and boiled and applied with a pen made from bamboo or buffalo horn or sugar palm leaf.

The content may be religious or non-religious, but usually contains magic cures, medicinal recipes, how to make protective amulets, black magic, fortune telling, astrology and instructions on how to carry out rituals. They are shorthand notes for the datu for his own use and notes dictated to his pupils. This explains the abrupt and fragmentary character of many texts.

There are calendars in the books. The year is 12 months. The month is divided into three groups of ten days. There are no weeks. The calendar is used to determine auspicious days for carrying out important matters, such as going on a trip, sowing or harvesting or getting married.

The pustaha are no longer used and not many exist outside private collections.

Early 20th century.

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Material: Bark, ink, wood
Style: Batak people, Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Size: Cover: Height 19.5 cm, Width 12.5 cm
Order Number: MHSASBB2

Portrait of a datu with divination book, medicine horn and magic staff, photographer unknown, 1929/1929. From the collection of the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Batak people are Indonesia’s largest ethnic minority group with over 6 million people. They live around Lake Toba in Sumatra. There are 6 ethnic groups with different languages and customs and they all believe they are descended from a common ancestor called Si Raja Batak.

Their religion centred around Batak datu priests, who had magical powers and held totem pole staffs, curved horns holding magical substances, and folding books full of spells. Their chief duty was to protect the individual, family and village from black magic and malevolent forces through rituals, concoctions, statues and amulets.

In 1866 the Lutheran German missionary Ludwig Nommensen converted most of the  Bataks.

These exotic books are called pustaha by the Bataks. They were written on bark with wooden covers by the Batak datu.  There are 5 Batak languages with 3 sub-groups, but the script of each is similar.

They are actually made from the bast of the alim tree, which is removed in long strips, smoothed and covered with rice flour paste. The strips are cut and folded into a concertina. The two ends are glued to the wooden covers. The ink is made from several resins and boiled and applied with a pen made from bamboo or buffalo horn or sugar palm leaf.

The content may be religious or non-religious, but usually contains magic cures, medicinal recipes, how to make protective amulets, black magic, fortune telling, astrology and instructions on how to carry out rituals. They are shorthand notes for the datu for his own use and notes dictated to his pupils. This explains the abrupt and fragmentary character of many texts.

There are calendars in the books. The year is 12 months. The month is divided into three groups of ten days. There are no weeks. The calendar is used to determine auspicious days for carrying out important matters, such as going on a trip, sowing or harvesting or getting married. The Karo Batak particularly, who did not convert to Christianity or Islam, still consult it.

The pustaha are no longer used and not many exist outside private collections.

Early 20th century.

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