Iban time beater

A very long bamboo tube with beautiful carved Iban motifs. 

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 Similar objects can be found in the British Museum that has some beaters collected by Hose . Heppell describes them as : "A  staff ('buloh kechut') used by a bard ('lemambang') when reciting a ritual chant ('pengap') to emphasize each line in the verse.

Dye is dragons blood (Daemonorops spp)"

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see an example in. the British Museum

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It was part of an old  bamboo collection , one of the tubes was labelled " Krian" . 

Most likely are  all tubes are from that area..

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Old example before 1900, beautiful colors,

the lower half has some glued  spilts

Stand included.

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Size total: 123  cm.

  ø : 2 cm

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SOLD

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