Jimpul ex.collection W.O. Oldman

[Dajak]

Is pictured in the catalogue of ethnographical specimes

[VANDOO]

A BEAUTIFUL JIMPUL , DOES IT HAVE COWRY SHELLS IMBEDDED IN THE BEES WAX FERULE? THAT IS SOMETHING I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING BEFORE ON DAYAK ITEMS. IN A OLD POST I ASKED ABOUT A DAYAK SWORD I HAVE AND IT HAD A SHARP POINTED CURVED BLADE, WE CAME UP WITH THE NAME JIMPUL FOR IT. I HAD THOUGHT THE NAME REFERRED TO THE SHARP POINT BUT AS I NOW SEE MANY WITH THE MORE BLUNT TIP REFERED TO AS JIMPUL INSTEAD OF MANDAU I AM NOT SURE AS TO WHAT SETS THEM APART. IS IT THE CURVED BLADE FORM THAT MAKES IT A JIMPUL AND NOT A MANDAU AND IF THE BLADE IS SHARP POINTED BUT NOT CURVED IS IT A MANDAU AND NOT A JIMPUL?

[Henk]

Vandoo,

The curved blade is caracteristic for a jimpul, but the most important thing to recognize a jimpul is the protusion on the blade near the hilt. The curl on picture 4.

[Dajak]

Hi no this is wrong the 3 picture is important for if it is a Jimpul or not.

Albert Zonneveld made a big mistake putting a certan mandua between the jimpuls.

On the Old Iban mandau you can find cowry shells

I will post another one from the Coppens collection that have the same

[Dajak]

This is an headmans Jimpul

[Alam Shah]

Dajak,

Another unique and interesting exquisite piece. The inlays looks like it's made from a few different materials.

[Henk]

Originally Posted by Dajak

Hi no this is wrong the 3 picture is important for if it is a Jimpul or not.

Albert Zonneveld made a big mistake putting a certan mandua between the jimpuls.

On the Old Iban mandau you can find cowry shells

I will post another one from the Coppens collection that have the same

I think I count in another way, Dajak. The protrusion of the second jimpul on the picture is important. It is a kind of guard before the sharp part of the blade begins.
Very nice examples, by the way.

[Dajak]

Hi Henk take my word I am just collecting these items only more than 30 years it is the way like I am telling.

The guard use is only by the parang Niabor and some old langai tingai.

[Titus Pullo]

that's a cool looking machete! I might take it with me on the next head hunting experience though!

[Dajak]

Hi Nechesh there are mandau s that look like new because they only used at cerimonial purposes .

The most newly made mandau s missing mostly a lot like
carving handle and the forging off the blade is not always like the old style even scabbards are not the way they should be.


I know A grandson From an Dayakhead man who live s overhere that was invited to a special festival in Borneo where no white people or outsiders get close to .
He was seeing there fresh tattoo s on the hands off the Ibans.
This was in the 1980 s I see a lot off pics from him that take you back to the old time.





Or are gifts and never Used

See these pics are givin to our Queens

the one with the bone was giving in 1897 to Queen Emma from the Sultan of
Kutai

The other 2 a gift also from the sultan off Kutai in 1928

[nechesh]

Hi Dajak. Your explanation to Flavio's question is certainly just as valid. Since we don't know exactly what auctions he is referring to it's hard to tell. Thanks for sharing more good exaples. I think i may have caught the Dayak bug. Now that i have one mandau i find myself looking for more.

[Flavio]

Originally Posted by nechesh

Hi Dajak. Your explanation to Flavio's question is certainly just as valid. Since we don't know exactly what auctions he is referring to it's hard to tell. Thanks for sharing more good exaples. I think i may have caught the Dayak bug. Now that i have one mandau i find myself looking for more.

Sorry for my vagueness , but for the moment i can't show you any examples. If i will find some others i will post them. Thank you for your answers.

[ronpakis]

i would like to add to this wonderfull discussion with very nice pictures that lots of weaponry and statues etc were made for collectors in the 19th century and of course other times. of course this mostly cannot be proven because many collectors have no provenance added. It just says: collected in nias in 1910 by.... this say only were and in what year the piece has been collectedand by whom.
For example: items were made for the great exhibitions in the early 20th century in paris etc and afterwards they dissapeared in museum collections.
Also items that were perhaps 10 years old or less were taken to lets say dutch musea to put in the collection. But since it happenend in lets say 1860 we call it antique but you can have questions if it realy ever was used in the way it is intended.

greetings Ron.

[nechesh]

Originally Posted by ronpakis

Also items that were perhaps 10 years old or less were taken to lets say dutch musea to put in the collection. But since it happenend in lets say 1860 we call it antique but you can have questions if it realy ever was used in the way it is intended.

Hi Ron. Certainly an item that was collected in 1860 really is an antique now regardless of how old it was when it was collected. It's not just what we call it. If it's 146 yrs. old it's an antique, period. I also would not discount a dayak headsman sword as not being authentic just because it was collected before it had the opportunity to take any heads. If it was made by the Dayak at the time with all the skills and qualities that go into a blade that saw some real use, but was collected or gifted before being used it's still the real thing in my book. Just a mite bit cleaner.

[Dajak]

Hi nekesh the blade is used off this mandau no doubt about that .

[mmontoro]

Dajak,

What is the significance of the fresh tattoos on the hands of the Iban at the festival?

Thanks,

Manny

[Dajak]

Hi the fresh tattoo s on the hand means that there been taking heads otherwise not allowed to put the tattoo s on the hand.

[asomotif]

Bumped up for Bill.
Check out your new / old(man) catalogue.