Ethnical Items from Indonesia.

[Dom]

Hello
my brother for the time being, lives in New Caledonia,
he brought me from over there a carved ethnic dagger, mix; bone and wood,
and an other item, a carved bone in scull form, with feathers on top, as hairs
I tried to understand, but it's really very far from my usuals paths ...;
- what for this dagger, seems if I'm not wrong, as far I read, here or there, this was use on the ceremonial pig
it's could come from, Tanimbar Moluccas, Indonesia
and the bone used, is from a "water buffalo"
but what is this "ceremonial pig", and on what this dagger was useful,
as far as the pinky part it's in wood, and don't seems too harmful ?

the "scull" again, in water buffalo bone carved, want to looks like primitive ancestral amulet protection figure
origin from, Kalimantan Borneo Indonesia.
would have been carried by the owner, in a bag or pocket for protection ??

I guess that these two items are new, but I should like to know, if the informations collected are correct

with a lot of interest, I read the excellent post initialised by "Tim Simmons"
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...t=bones+dagger
that concern the really old artifacts, and not some "souvenir" like mine

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Dom