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Large carved wooden funerary stele with white engobe and vegetal decoration. Work of the Philippines. Period: end of XIXth century. H. (without the posterior base): +/-89cm.

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Large carved wooden funerary stele with white engobe and vegetal decoration. Work of the Philippines. Period: end of XIXth century. H. (without the posterior base): +/-89cm.

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Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

A DAYAK, DUZUN OR KADAZAN-DUSUN IRONWOOD TOMB STELE ''KLIRIENG`` Borneo Northwest, Malaysia, Sabah or Sarawak, early 20th c. H. 173 cm. (o.S.) This remarkable, very well-preserved grave stele made of heavy ironwood(belian wood, Eusideroxylon zwageri) is carved all over in deep and partially openwork relief. It consists of one piece. Partial remnants of a white colour can be seen in the recesses. The main motif of the stele(klirieng is a generic collective term for grave markers), in addition to vegetal motifs that point to the world tree as a symbol of the renewal of life and the connection between the spheres of humans and gods, are auspicious Islamic characters (the Kadazan groups are predominantly Muslim). The motifs were worked into the main central area and along its edge. The vegetal, symmetrical motifs probably symbolise the tree of life pohon budi. The motif of the tree of life plays an important role in Borneo's cosmology, as the tree of life extends through all three planes of the world and connects the spheres of the dead, the living and the gods, symbolising renewal and vitality. The vegetal dissolution of the motifs is related to the Muslim stipulation that the depiction of realistic life forms of divine creation is presumptuous and therefore to be avoided. Diese Stele ist im Vergleich zu anderen Exemplaren sehr aufwendig gearbeitet, was in Verbindung mit der beachtlichen Größe auf einen hohen Rang des Verstorbenen hindeutet. Die Stelen waren jeweils an den Enden des Holzsarges eingesteckt und befestigt, somit war das untere, unverzierte Drittel nicht sichtbar. Die Stele stammt aus der Kutai-Region von einer nicht sicher identifizierbaren Gruppe der Kadazan, die im muslimischen Sultanat von Kutai am Mahakam-Fluss auf Borneo leben. Der Kulturraum wird als Dusun- bzw. Kadazan-Gebiet bezeichnet, ist jedoch auch von (nicht-muslimischen) Dayak besiedelt. Kadazan ist eine ethnogenetische Bezeichnung für verschiedene indigene Gruppen innerhalb des malaiischen Bundesstaates Sabah auf Borneo. Die gruppenübergreifende Ethnizität der Kadazan-Dusun stellt mit ca. 570.000 Angehörigen die größte ethnische Gruppe der Völker Sabahs dar. From an old German private collection, assembled since the 1950s - Partly traces of age and slightly chipped

Estim. 3 000 - 6 000 EUR

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