Board ID?

[David]

Originally Posted by Marcokeris

This ancestor Aso motif can be seen in a lot of book about Borneo tribes art .. all written in english language with many pics and also accurate description about meaning and symbolism (for example: hornbill and dragon, borneo and beyond, the eloquent dead,.... ).
IMO to put a keris on this kind of board is the same to put a little ET in crib...but of course is only my personal taste

Thanks for the examples Marco. I am not too concerned about the cross-culture between keris and board. I wouldn't put a Borneo hilt on a Madura Keris, or for that matter, even a Jawa hilt on one, but as a method to display this keris i am just fine with. If i had a baby ET i would probaby put it in a crib too.
Still i am hoping that we might be able to identify the actual tribe this came from through the particular style of this carving. Maybe i should move this over to the main forum since some of our Dayak experts might not have seen this over here on the keris forum.

[ganjawulung]

How about this "Rangda", ratu leak of Balinese magic world? (A picture from somewhere...)

[David]

Ganja, i am not sure what, if any, relationship exists between Rangda and this image, but the similarities with it's out-stretched tongue did not get past me.

[A. G. Maisey]

No comment.

EDIT:-

Sorry, I thought it was obvious:- Maori haka

[Gustav]

Yes, the use of tongue is very extensive in maori culture

Borneo:

[A. G. Maisey]

Yes Gustav very extensive, in some other cultures too.

Useful implement, the tongue.

[Gustav]