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A wooden figure used to take on human diseases shamanistic healing rituals of the Basap in East Kalimantan.

Publication: Borneo Research Bulletin
Publication Date: 02-JAN-02 		Format: Online - approximately 912 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In January 2002 I accompanied a German student in ethnology, Christian Oesterheld, to the Basap area, on Mangkalihat Peninsula, in East Kalimantan. He stayed there nearly three months doing research. It was my fourth journey to the Basap since 1976.

While staying with the Basap we had the opportunity to meet with a shaman who called himself a dukun. He performs healing rituals to cure sick people. For the performance of each ritual he produces a specific carved wooden figure that depicts the patient he is treating. During the two nights of a healing ritual, which he calls bulungan, he performs a shamanistic dance, or tarian tangiagan, with the figure, and he repeatedly "takes" disease spirits from the sick body-parts of his patient and presses them into the figure. The patient is then supposed to...

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