This beaded baby carrier panel was once attached to the back of a rattan baby carrier where it functioned as a kind of spiritual shield for deflecting negative spirits.

Dayak Beaded Baby Carrier Panel - No. 221

Featuring a Large Anthropomorph with Hands and Feet Ending in Stylized Dragon Heads

Probably Made by a Kenyah Woman of Sarawak or Kalimantan, ca. 1925-1955

European glass beads, vegetal fiber thread

13.75 x 11 in / 35 x 28 cm

Unpublished.

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