DAYAK2 from Borneo - Towards a chronology of Dayak sculpture from Borneo

This essay will deal specifically with the antiquity of styles of Dayak anthropomorphic statuary in wood generally called hampatong. The word hampatong (Ngadju) kapatong, tempatong (Ot Danun) means statue or figure in general and refers to large anthropomorphic ancestral figures made of ironwood. Recent discoveries of hampatongs with deeply eroded surface showing considerable age have initiated some collectors, dealers and museums to start dating them by C14. These results mostly unpublished until now must force us to completely revise our understanding of the evolution and age of these art styles and integrate them in the larger landscape of Art History of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

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