Book description
The author describes the ikat, sungkit, pilih, and other forms of Iban weaving, the sculptures, the tattooing, metal forging, and other art of the Iban in the context of their oral sagas, stories, poetry, and love songs. He shows how art was used as a pre-literate scholastic aptitude test to…
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There are very few good books on the culture of the Iban people of Borneo, and so I was thrilled to get a copy of this 2005 classic! This is a deep dive into the culture of Borneo, and although it covers many aspects of Iban artistic expression, as the title suggests, this focuses particularly on the longstanding relationship between beautiful weavings and head-hunting. A highly skilled woman weaver would produce the finest textiles to demand a head from her spouse to show that he was worthy of staying married to her. This is an extraordinary anthropological study of an…
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