Product Description

Kalimantan Calendar

Material: Ironwood
Style: Kalimantan
Size: Length 42 cm, Width 10 cm
Order Number: E22

Rectangular Dayak ritual calendar of the type  used by the Dayak Ngaju ethnic group in the centre of the island of Kalimantan.

At the top is a naked figure, full face, legs and arms bent, a fertility figure.

The circle represents the sun or the stars, cut into eight quarters, engraved with sacred zoomorphic representations.

The panels consists of the calendar itself. The top part has  five horizontal lines engraved with lines, circles and dots and the bottom part is engraved with thirty-five small squares.

The calendar would be consulted to ascertain a day, which is good to go hunting or to go on an expedition. A cross indicates that the day is not favourable.

Map of Kalimantan.

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