A beautiful old beaded baby carrier panel by the Dayak people of Borneo. Long ago, this panel was attached to the back of a rattan baby carrier, where it functioned as a kind of spiritual shield for deflecting negative, child-harming spirits.

Dayak Beaded Baby Carrier Panel - No. 218

Featuring Stylized Anthropomorphs and Other Motifs

Probably Made by a Basap Woman of Brunei or East Kalimantan, ca. 1890-1935

European and Asian glass beads, vegetal fiber thread.

11.5 x 8 in / 29 x 20 cm

Published (upside down):

Irwin Hersey, Indonesian Primitive Art (1991), Pl. 13.

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