Danse des Udoq

Vocal and instrumental music collected in Kalimantan Timur in 1977 by N. Revel, J. Maceda and I Made Bandem. Ceremonial dance welcoming rice seeds to the village by all the villagers (200 families) in their finest attire and all the musical instruments together as well as the mouth organ, kedirek which revolves around the central column topped by toucan , surrounded by two tigers. Dance of masks in a semi-circle facing the column, on the left, udoq kitaq (worn by men), made of wood and on the right udoq kibah (worn by women), made of inverted hoods covered with beaded tapestries representing the udoq on the face of the overturned basket. The gestures are very slow and graceful. At the center of these two semicircular groups arrives udoq taing whose head represents an enormous wild boar (carried by 10 men) and small figures, udoq maok surrounds him and carry blowguns and quivers as well as baskets full of rice seeds. They represent the hunter-gatherers, Punan. (Cf. Bilingual booklet. The music of the Kenyah and Modang in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Face I.5, p.5)
Edited Title
id Tarian udoq
Archivist's Original Title
fr Danse des Udoq
en Udoq dance
Original description
en Vocal and instrumental music collected in Kalimantan Timur in 1977 by N. Revel, J. Maceda and I Made Bandem. Ceremonial dance welcoming rice seeds to the village by all the villagers (200 families) in their finest attire and all the musical instruments together as well as the mouth organ, kedirek which revolves around the central column topped by toucan , surrounded by two tigers.
Dance of masks in a semi-circle facing the column, on the left, udoq kitaq (worn by men), made of wood and on the right udoq kibah (worn by women), made of inverted hoods covered with beaded tapestries representing the udoq on the face of the overturned basket.
The gestures are very slow and graceful. At the center of these two semicircular groups arrives udoq taing whose head represents an enormous wild boar (carried by 10 men) and small figures, udoq maok surrounds him and carry blowguns and quivers as well as baskets full of rice seeds. They represent the hunter-gatherers, Punan. (Cf. Bilingual booklet. The music of the Kenyah and Modang in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Face I.5, p.5)
Time duration
en 0:12:54
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, Long Segar sur la rivière Telen
Resource Language
en Kenyah
Comment
en Mouth organ, kedirek; suspended xylophones, jatung utang; lutes, sampeq.
Oral comments by the ethnographer. Description of the masks and costumes.
Cf. l1978, Revel-Macdonald, Nicole “The dance of the Hudoq masks”, Objets et Mondes, la Revue du Musée de l'Homme, volume 18, fasc. 1-2 (spring-summer), pp. 31-44, 3 maps, 2 plans, photos.
See musical transcription (Cf. Bilingual booklet. The music of the Kenyah and Modang in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. p. 17)
Archivist Category
en Music (Instrumental)
Recording context
en Field recording
Instrument, Original Archivist Data
en Spoken voice: female; Mouth organ; Xylophone; 3-string lute
Instrument (Supplementary/Annotated Data)
en Kedirek;Jatung utang;Sampeq
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_006_05
SEAH Identifier
en SEAH_CNRSMH_I_2010_006_006_05