This rare beaded panel by the Dayak people of Borneo features stylized dragons with multiple heads and prominent eyes. This panel was once attached to the back of a rattan baby carrier as a kind of spiritual shield for deflecting negative spirits.

Dayak Beaded Baby Carrier Panel - No. 173

Featuring Stylized Dragon and Anthropomorph Imagery

Probably Made by a Kenyah Woman of Sarawak or Kalimantan, ca. 1900-1935.

European glass beads, vegetal fiber thread

9.85 x 8.75 in / 25 x 22 cm

Published:

Valerie Hector, "Evoking the Aso':

Dayak Beaded Baby Carrier Panels with Dragon-Dog Motifs" (2022), Fig. 15.

Comparable Example Unknown.

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