Modang (Ga'ai) Dayak. East Kalimantan, Borneo Island, Indonesia.
Hardwood. L: 97" (246.4 cm), W: 11" (28 cm), H: 8.5" (21.6 cm).

Ancestral shrine roof finial with mythical guardian dragon (Aso) in stretched-out deconstructed form.
This style of abstract and often wildly contorted Aso figure with a "cap" like structure on the head is typical
of the Modang Dayak (also identified as Ga'ai or Ga'ay) that inhabited the Berau District of East Kalimantan.

Published in "The Kayanic Tradition...", volume I, plate 110, page 210.

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