Dayak (Dyak) is a general term referring to the non-Muslim indigenous village people living in the interior of Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan). Traditionally living in “longhouses” along the banks of larger rivers, and composed of many groups throughout the island, the Dayak have no specific or identifiable ethnic or tribal heritage. Although they make many types of masks, the most popular are called Hudoq and are made for the Dayak agricultural festival celebrating the rice harvest.
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The culture, rituals, tribal and ethnic art of the Dayak (Dyak) of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia is a mix of shamanism, animism and ancestor worship. Dyak festival masks worn on the face or large ones attached to a costume repel malicious spirits from entering communal spaces, insure village safety, protect babies in their carriers and defend…
The Dayak (Dyak) people live on the Island of Kalimantan in the Indonesia part of Borneo and their hudoq masks are offerings to attract gods, ancestors and sacred rice spirits that assure the fertility of rice and protect villages. They are tribal, folk and ethnic objects that may not only worn on the face; they…
The religion of the ethnic Dayak (Dyak) people of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia is a mix of animism, shamanism and ancestor worship. Their word hudoq describes three different things: it describes the pests that can destroy the rice harvest on which their survival depends; the name of the huge yearly Dyak planting celebration and the name…
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