Intersting rattan quiver?? for Id and opinions

[Henk]

Nathaniel, did you read the text belonging to these quivers? The author said this is Philipine.

[Andy Stevens]

Hello again folks, we've been doing a bit of researching ourselves and found some similar basket work coming from China's Dong people. The link below shows examples of various baskets, all of which show a very high degree of skill in production.The quiver shown is for a full size bow and not for blow pipe darts. We say ours is simillar in some respects, but still yearn for the definate identification of what is in its own right a beautiful piece of tribal art. As ever comments very welcome.







http://www.toranatribal.com/Baskets.html

[VANDOO]

MOST BUT NOT ALL BLOWGUN DART QUIVERS HAVE A COVER. I AM THINKING PERHAPS THIS IS A QUIVER FOR THE SHORT BOLTS FOR THE CROSSBOWS USED IN INDO CHINA. BASED ON ITS CONSTRUCTION, SIZE AND LACK OF A COVER THAT IS MY BEST GUESS.

[Navigator]

I am almost positive that this quiver is not from the Philippines.
Nice piece.

[Nathaniel]

Originally Posted by Andy Stevens

Hello again folks, we've been doing a bit of researching ourselves and found some similar basket work coming from China's Dong people. The link below shows examples of various baskets, all of which show a very high degree of skill in production.The quiver shown is for a full size bow and not for blow pipe darts. We say ours is simillar in some respects, but still yearn for the definate identification of what is in its own right a beautiful piece of tribal art. As ever comments very welcome.

http://www.toranatribal.com/Baskets.html

Interesting basketry of the Dong & Miao



This one listed as from Guizhou province in China, which is identical to the one I had in the picture of the knife sheath from Thailand.

I had a Thai friend look at the pictures of the quiver and they said it looked like it could be Thai or maybe Lao. I know I've seen examples in Thailand identical to the quiver you have Andy.

I think this just goes to show how wide range this could be...and that it is near impossible to specify the exact minority group...there are several ethnic minorities in the south east Asia...they have traded, adopted & adapted from each other...and migrated throughout history.

The basketry is SEA is all elaborate, the older examples of course tend to be the best as the newly made in the traditional style are rarely as fine of work.

A funny/ practical example I saw was a certain snack was traditionally put into an origami folded leaf container...well, one vendor I saw still used the leaf container...but rather than taking the extra time to make sure it was folded correctly to hold tight...it was instead just stapled together

Maybe some SEA basket expert could tell you...but from what I've seen it appears it's too generic Just like today it was then...if it's a popular design it's copied.

[Henk]

I think Vandoo came with the best answer.

I found the picture of this one. Saying a quiver from Cambodja.

[Nathaniel]

Originally Posted by Henk

Nathaniel, did you read the text belonging to these quivers? The author said this is Philipine.

Yup, I did search the suggested terminology word for word...only found a woven quiver from Borneo....I then added Philippine and Google suggested "Filipino", a Filipino being a person from the Philippines....I added it to the search results showed the above black and white photo which I showed above

Which actually came off a vikingsword.com page:

Plates from:
Herbert W. Krieger's
The Collection of Primitive Weapons and Armor of the Philippine Islands
in the United States National Museum
Smithsonian Institution; United States National Museum, Bulletin 137 (1926)

http://www.vikingsword.com/rila/krieger.html