Sumpitan

[Marc M.]

Originally Posted by Albert

Very nice and complete! Congrats.

Dag Albert
Bedankt voor uw reactie, thank you for your response. Facinating objects that don't seem to have that much interest.
Regards
Marc

[JeffS]

Very cool. The aso-motives on the belt hanger are great. What is the dark pointed object shown in the last two photos?

[wildwolberine]

Originally Posted by JeffS

Very cool. The aso-motives on the belt hanger are great. What is the dark pointed object shown in the last two photos?

JeffS,

My understanding is that those tools are used for carving/shaping the plant pith air seals for the blowgun darts. Beautiful set!

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by wildwolberine

JeffS,

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.

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Marc M.

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

Best regards,
Detlef