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Vocal and instrumental music collected in Kalimantan Timur in 1977 by N. Revel, J. Maceda and I Made Bandem. A male chorus begins followed by a solo male voice recounting a historical event. A warrior said to be the messenger of the Sultan of Kutai, dances ritual pantomime while offering a glass of water to the Raja, seated on the large humped gong. With gliding steps, he draws circles with his arm and follows a long diagonal line to bring the glass and place it in the Raja's hands. This offering dance lasted 4 minutes and the Raja stood up, received the glass and drank it. Traditionally, this dance took place at the end of a peace pact and after that the community waited to be informed of the contents of the agreement.
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Original description
en Vocal and instrumental music collected in Kalimantan Timur in 1977 by N. Revel, J. Maceda and I Made Bandem. A male chorus begins followed by a solo male voice recounting a historical event. A warrior said to be the messenger of the Sultan of Kutai, dances ritual pantomime while offering a glass of water to the Raja, seated on the large humped gong. With gliding steps, he draws circles with his arm and follows a long diagonal line to bring the glass and place it in the Raja's hands. This offering dance lasted 4 minutes and the Raja stood up, received the glass and drank it. Traditionally, this dance took place at the end of a peace pact and after that the community waited to be informed of the contents of the agreement.
Time duration
en 0:04:44
Recording date of the original material
en 1977-04
Acquisition Date
en 2010
Population
en Kenyah
Place of the cultural origin
Country Name
Recording place
en Kalimantan Timur, Kenyah Umaq Taw à Tandjung Manis
Resource Language
en Kenyah
Performer/Speaker
en Revel, Nicole
Comment
en Next phase of the previously initiated ritual.
Tags, Keywords
en Dance
Archivist Category
en Music (Dance)
Recording context
en Field recording
Instrument, Original Archivist Data
en Singing voice: male solo and male chorus; Speaking voice: female
Name of original Collection
en Kalimantan Timur (Bornéo Est) ; Revel, N. 1977.
External reference
en 1979, REVEL, MACEDA & I Made Bandem, The Music of the Kenyah and the Modang, Kalimantan Timur, 33RPM, Unesco, University of the Philippines, Quezon City ; - 1982, Revel-Macdonald, Nicole‘Masks in Kalimantan Timur’, Mask II, The World of Music, Berlin. International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation, pp. 52-57. - 1988, Revel-Macdonald, Nicole‘The Dayaks : On the Ancestors, the Dead and the Living’, Islands and Ancestors, J.P. Barbier and D. Newton (eds), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, pp. 66-85 and pp. 240-257.
History of ownership
en Tapes digitized and archived at CREM (CNRS, Nanterre) by Nicole Revel in 2010.
Copyright Information
en CC BY-NC-ND
Physical format
en Magnetic tape
Preservation State of Physical Object
en Copy
Original item number
en CNRSMH_I_2010_006_005_03
SEAH Identifier
en SEAH_CNRSMH_I_2010_006_005_03