Tradition Body Piercing Tattoo Tool Kit Dayak Borneo Start Price USD 229.00 Current Price USD 229.00 Time Left 9 days 1 hours 18 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, October 20, 2008 End Time Sunday, January 18, 2009 Location Kuching, Sarawak See more about 'Tradition Body Piercing Tattoo Tool Kit Dayak Borneo' Description NO RESERVE > > > > > > > Very rare . . . . . . NO RESERVE……………. Must buy for Traditional Piercing Tattoo Collectors > > > > > > > > the Dayak traditions, The art of tattooing is highly developed among the Dayak Tribes. They tattooed on their boby, arm, fingers, feet and thights.Besides that some Dayak men have tattoos on the throat as a symbol of bravery. The designs are first incised on a wooden block and stamps on the skin to be finely pricked / tattooed with needle and dyed. Tattoos serve as a magical protection to keep bad spirits away, a symbol of manhood, success in warfare, battle identification, and status. Both men and women have tattoos, especially the aristrocrats. This is a most completed Rare Great Superb Dayak Traditional tattoo tool kit sets. It is consists of a tattoo kit, 8 pieces of traditional tattoo tool sets. *** *** 1) The traditional tattoo kit is carved with one piece of ironwood. From the photos attached you can clearly see that the cover of the kit is carved with extremely rare and very fine Embossed whole ASO dragon dog figure motif and traditional Dayak motif surrounding the the aso figure motif. Both end of this kit is also heavily carved with embossed ASO dragon dog figure motif and Dayak human ritual setting figure. Both sides of the kit is fully and completely carved with very rare Dayak dragon motif ( photo 3 ). The length is 18 inches, the height is 5 inches and the width is 3.25 inches. *** *** 2) This 8 pieces of awesome tribal traditional Bone tattoo tools is used by the Dayak tribes from Kalimantan, Borneo Island. From the photos you can clearly see that both these tattoo needles is carved from BONES and carved with extremely finest and amazingly rare Dayak traditional aso / dragon dog motif and Dayak spiritual ritual human figure motif. In addition, both the tattoo needles are tightly wrapped with some kind of thread and is beautifully carved with the Mythological "Aso" (dragon dog motif) representing the under world Goddess, symbol of protection and fertility/prosperity; The average length of the needle is 9.5 inches, this tattoo tools is also come with a tapper, a stirring ( you can see from the photos attached the end part of the tattoo tools has attached with bone rings. ; 3 tattoo stamps / blocks and a ironwood bone tattoo ink mixing bowl, the size is 5 x2 inches. *** **** Airmail to USA is USD75.00 … …. …… …… This traditional Dayak piercing tattoo tool set kit is the only completed set kit. This kit is very very unique and rare pieces for Dayak traditional piercing tattoo collectors …. …. …. DON’T >> MISS >> IT ……… … > > > > > > > > > >> >>> >>> Please visits my ebay store, there have more than 290 Dayak Kalimantan Borneo Ethnographic Primitives and collectibles items for your multi purchase choices ** ** ** Always give more combine airmail discounts for buying few items together *** *** Happy Bidding ....... Please visit my Gallery consists of primitive art like Pua, Bidang, Tattoo tools, Masks, Statue, Baby carrier, Old Bead panel and etc.. :My Gallery Place a Bid!