A rare old Dayak beaded baby carrier panel featuring stylized scroll and hooked rhomb motifs. Dayak people believed attaching such a beaded panel to the back of a rattan baby carrier would help prevent negative spirits from stealing a child's soul.l

Dayak Beaded Baby Carrier Panel - No. 237

Featuring Stylized Scroll and Hooked Rhomb Motifs

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

European glass beads, vegetal fiber thread.

18.75 x 6.75 in / 47.6 x 17 cm

Unpublished.

Price on Request.