Dayak Beaded Baby Carrier Panel - No. 238

Featuring Concentric Hooked Rhomb Motifs

Probably made by a Bahau Woman of the Upper Mahakam River Region, ca. 1890-1935

European glass beads, vegetal fiber thread

14.25 x 8.85 in / 36 x 22.5 cm

Unpublished.

Comparable Example from ca. 1900:

A. W. Nieuwenhuis, Quer Durch Borneo: Ergebnisse seiner Reisen en den Jahren 1894, 1896-7, und 1898-1900

Part 2, Plate 69a.

Price on Request.