Door
| Object Number: | P1301 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sebop |
| Provenience: | Borneo Sarawak Tinjar River |
| Section: | Oceanian |
| Materials: | Wood Ceramic |
| Height: | 201.6 cm |
| Width: | 69 cm |
| Depth: | 16.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898 |
Description
Carved door of a private room off a long-house veranda. Heavy wooden door, carved with two entwined figures at top, and another serving as a handle. Small white discs inlaid as eyes of figures and along sides and at bottom of door. At least some of these discs are glazed porcelain. "For a bolt of red cloth I bought the elaborately carved door of a dwelling room . . . . " "A door-frame from the house of Tama Aping Pang, a Sibop. The two little figures above the door were said to represent wawa monkeys." (Furness, The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters, following p. 114.) Illustrated in Charles Hose's "Pagan Tribes of Borneo" as "DOOR OF ROOM IN SEBOP (KLEMANTAN) HOUSE. The two figures near the top probably represent gibbons."
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| The Dayaks: Peoples of the Borneo Rain Forest (Furness, Hiller, Harrison Borneo Collection) (25 Feb 1989 - 01 Jul 1990) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Article] Davenport, William H. "Selections from the Exhibition: The Dayaks: Peoples of the Borneo Rainforest". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 30. no. 1. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 37 (b) | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] McDougall, William, and Hose, Charles. 1912. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.. London. Macmillan and Company. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Vol. I, Plate 123 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Furness, William H. 1902. The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters: Its Festivals and Folk-lore.. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: following p. 114 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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