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Old 19th May 2025, 03:32 PM   #1
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Some more objects from Indonesia/Borneo. A sumpitan blowpipe/spear, 1.80 meters oal. Binding spear tip/blow pipe solid. An arrow quiver made of bamboo with the belt hook and some arrows present.
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Very nice and complete! Congrats.
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Very nice and complete! Congrats.
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Bedankt voor uw reactie, thank you for your response. Facinating objects that don't seem to have that much interest.
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Very cool. The aso-motives on the belt hanger are great. What is the dark pointed object shown in the last two photos?
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Very cool. The aso-motives on the belt hanger are great. What is the dark pointed object shown in the last two photos?
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My understanding is that those tools are used for carving/shaping the plant pith air seals for the blowgun darts. Beautiful set!
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My understanding is that those tools are used for carving/shaping the plant pith air seals for the blowgun darts. Beautiful set!
Agreed!

Attached a pic of a very similar tool from the tolor in my collection.
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Old 24th May 2025, 10:02 AM   #7
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Facinating objects that don't seem to have that much interest.
Hi Marc,

I don't think so, nearly all Dayak ethnographic items are highly collectible. Your sumpitan is nice but the real treasure is the nice tolor. I would try to fix the open rotan bindings on both items.
There are several threads about these items, here are two:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=tolor
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=sumpitan

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