Literary Arts

 

 

Fine art includes one branch of art which consists of sculpture, painting and decorative arts. Sculpture on the people of Bali have experienced a long development, namely 

(1) statues patterned megalithic derived from pre-Hindu era and is seen as a liaison man with the ancestors and the forces of nature, 

(2) statues of the gods, as the media humans with the gods and Hindu influences of this type is a Buddhist,

(3) sculpture themed figures from the Ramayana and Mahabharata stories, 

(4) other forms of reliefs carved on the walls of the house door and the pillar of the house, 

(5) statues naturalist.

Similarly, painting, also has undergone a long journey. At the start of the paintings are symbolic magical like rerajahan religious paintings, such as painting on Parba, ceiling and ider-ider through the paintings of naturalist.

Traditional arts are classified according to their functions into three types: (1) dance wali (sacred dance), which is a sacred religious dance, (2) bebali dance, dance accompaniment of the ceremony, (3) dance-balihan balih the dance-dance that serves as entertainment. Types of sacred dance is referred to (a) dance sanghyang dedari; (b) dance rejang sutri; (c) Pendet; (d) line dance big, tumbak, jangkang line, trench lines, pusi, sraman, tekok whiz, (e) a display mask, (f) lumah puppet, puppet sudhamala; (g) abuang dance; (h) bruntuk dance; (i) dance daka malon, (j) ngayap dance; (k) dance kincang kincung; (l) means clothing / axle sacred by the local community.

Literary art is a noble heritage and a source of reference as well as other art forms. The ancient people of Bali have been familiar with the writing or the Balinese script. The whole art of Balinese literature includes five times as follows: Ancient literature Bali, Balinese Hindu, Bali, Java, Bali and the Balinese New Modern.

    

Art Craft (Crafts)

 

Shield / Kelembit / Keliau
Is a deterrent in the fight against the enemy. Shield made of lightweight wood, but not easily broken. The front shield is decorated with carvings, but now is mostly decorated with paintings that use black and white or red and white. Motifs used to decorate the shield consists of three basic motifs:
1. Motif hornbills (Necklace Tebengaang)
2. Motif Dragon / Dog (Necklace Aso ')
3. Motif Masks (Udo Necklace ')
In addition as a means of personal protection from enemy attacks, the shield also serves as:
- Tool rescue when fire / protect themselves from flames
- Supplies to dance in dance war
- Tools to arbitrate fights
- Equipment for the ceremony Belian
Now the shields are sold as souvenirs / decorate household decor.
Ulap Doyo
Doyo leaf fiber fabrics of this is the only handicrafts made by women Benuaq Dayak tribes who live in Cape Isuy. Pandanus plant that resembles doyo thrive in Cape Isuy. Strong leaf fiber and can be used as yarn for weaving. Doyo weave is then often processed into clothing, cap, purses, bags, wall hangings and so forth.
Anjat
Tool shaped like a bag made of woven rattan and have two or three hooks. Anjat usually used to put luggage when traveling.

Aban Bening
Tools for carrying a child who is only found in Dayak Kenyah community. It is made of wood which is usually decorated with carving or coated with embroidery beads and coins.

Blowpipe
Tools commonly used for hunting or war which is known by almost all the Dayak tribe in Kalimantan. This tool is made of ironwood or the like that form a long stick that was given a small hole to insert the child blowpipe. Blowpipe equipped with an eye spear tied tightly at the tip and is also equipped with a blowgun and its child containers (selup).

 
Seraong
Wide-shaped hat that is used to working in the fields or to withstand sun and rain. Now many processed seraong-seraong small size for household decoration.
Saber
It is a traditional weapon that resembles a sword Dayak tribe. Saber made of iron with a handle made of wood or bone. Before manufacture begins, first performed traditional ceremonies in accordance with the traditions of each tribe Dayak.
Manik
Craft beads typical Dayak tribe is usually made into clothing, decorating hats / seraong or nodes Aban. Now many of the craft beads are processed into bags, necklaces, bracelets, key chains and various other decoration.

Architecture Art Dayak

Lamin Dayak tribe

Houses traditional Dayak tribe known as Lamin. The form of each custom house Lamin Dayak tribes generally are not much different. Lamin usually established overlooking the River. With the basic shape of a rectangular building. Lamin long there that reached 200 meters with a width between 20 to 25 meters. In the yard there are approximately Lamin-sized wooden statues of the ancestors issculpture offerings ( blang ).

The use of high water pools in Lamin

Lamin-shaped house on stilts (a vault) using a saddle roof. Height under there that reached 4 meters. To rise to the top of Lamin, used a ladder made of tree trunks that ditakik-notch form the steps and stairs can be removable or dinaik and drop off. All of this is an attempt to anticipate the threat of enemy attack or the beasts.

At first, Lamin inhabited by many families who inhabit the cubicles in Lamin, but the habit is getting faded in the present. The front of Lamin is a long porch that serves as a place of solemnization of marriage, birth, death, harvest festival, etc.. On the back porch there is a row of large chambers. Each room occupied by five heads of households.

Dayak tribe settlements on the banks of the Mahakam

Lamin customary residence of royalty and heads are full of decorations or beautiful carvings ranging from the pole, wall to roof peak. Ornament on the roof top there is a sticking to 3 or 4 meters. Lamin wall manor or custom made head of the board, while the ordinary people of Lamin's only made of bark.

Screen Printing Art & Sculpture

Sculptor Dayak 
A grandfather Dayak with tools pahatnya


Function Sculpture For Dayak Tribe
Dayak tribe known sculpture sculpture that serves as ajimat, completeness or as a ritual ceremony.
Statue Ajimat
Sculpture as ajimat made of different wood species that are considered efficacious to resist disease or restore the spirit of the sick.
Completed Statue Ceremony
Small figurines to complete the ceremony is usually used when the implementation of traditional ceremonies such as pelas year, kuangkai, and other customary party. This small statue made of different materials such as wood, bamboo until the sticky rice flour.
Statue Blontang 
Tools Statue Ceremony
Sculpture as ritual tools blontang example is the statue made of ironwood. High statue of between 2-4 meters and essentially plugged into the soil as deep as 1 meter.
 
Blontang Statue of Dayak is reminiscent of the totem which is owned by the Indians in America.
The Dayak motif carvings
The Dayak have patterns or unique motifs in each of their carvings. Generally they take the patterns of natural forms like plants, animals and other forms that they believe the spirits of the gods, for example Naang Brang, Pen Lih, Wung Deing Loh, and so forth.

Dayak Dance

1. Gantar Dance
Dance depicting the movement of people to plant rice. Sticks describe pounder while bamboo and wood grain rice seed described therein and recesses.
This dance is quite famous and is often expressed in welcoming guests and events lain nya.Tari is not only known by the Dayak tribe Tunjung but also known by the Dayak tribe Benuaq. This dance can be divided into three versions of the dance Gantar Rayatn, Gantar Busai and Gantar oppressed /Gantar Kusak. http://culturalartsgallery.blogspot.com/
2. Dance Kancet Papatai / Dance War
This dance tells the story of a hero of the Dayak Kenyah war against his enemies. The movement of this dance is very agile, nimble, energetic and sometimes followed by cries of the dancers.
In Kancet Pepatay dance, dancers use traditional clothing Dayak Kenyah equipped with tools of war such as saber, shield and armor. This dance is accompanied by song Sak Paku and only use the instrument Sampe.

Dance War

 3. Ledo Kancet Dance / Dance Gong

If Dance Kancet Pepatay depict male virility and strength Dayak Kenyah, otherwise Dance Kancet Ledo describe the gentleness of a girl like a rice snaking gently blown by wind. 

Ledo Kancet Dance This dance is performed by a woman wearing traditional clothes Dayak Kenyah and on both hands holding a series of tail feathers hornbills. Usually the dance is danced on a gong, which is also called Dance Kancet Ledo Gong. 4. Dance Kancet weldsDescribes the daily life of hornbills, birds that glorified by the Dayak Kenyah tribe because it is considered as a sign of greatness and heroism. Dance is a dance single weld Kancet Dayak Kenyah women the same motion and its position as Dance Kancet Ledo, but the dancers did not use a gong and hornbill feathers and also the dancers use a lot of humble position and squatting or sitting with knees touching the floor. This dance is more emphasis on movements when flying hornbills and perch perched on a tree branch. 5.Tari LELENG This dance is about a girl named Utan Along that will be married by force by her parents with a young man who was loved. Utan Along eventually fled into the forest. Dance of Dayak Kenyah tribe girls danced to the accompaniment of singing this song LELENG.

Dance Hudoq 6. Dance HudoqThis dance is performed by using a wooden mask that resembles a wild animal and using banana leaves or coconut leaves as cover the dancer's body. This dance is closely connected with religious ceremonies of the Dayak ethnic groups and Modang Bahau. Dance Hudoq intended to gain strength in overcoming the destructive pests of plants and expects to be given fertility yields a lot.
7. Hudoq We Dance 'Dance of Dayak Kenyah tribe is in principle similar to Dance Hudoq from Bahau and Modang Dayak tribe, namely for the ceremony to welcome the year of planting and to express gratitude to the god who has given a good harvest. The contrast between Hudoq We Dance 'and Dance Hudoq on costumes, masks, dance movement and accompaniment music. Dancer costume Hudoq We 'use the long sleeves of plain cloth and wearing sarongs, while ordinary people face-shaped mask that many decorated with carvings typical of Dayak Kenyah. There are two types of masks in dance Hudoq We ', which is made of wood and that a veil made of beads with ornaments Dayak Kenyah. 8. Dance SerumpaiBenuaq tribal dance is performed to reject the outbreak of the disease and treat people who are bitten by mad dogs. Called Serumpai dance because the dance accompanied by musical instruments Serumpai (a type of bamboo flute).
 

Tari Belian Bawo9. Tari Belian BawoBelian Bawo ceremony aims to resist disease, cure the sick, pay vows and so forth. Once transformed into dance, this dance is often served on special occasions receptionist and other art events. This dance is a dance of Dayak Benuaq. 10. Dance KuyangA dance of the Dayak tribe Belian Benuaq to expel the ghosts that keep large trees and tall so as not to disturb people or people who cut down the tree. 11. Dance of Little Kina This dance describes the movement of Dayak Kenyah tribe who move from the Apo Kayan region (Kab. Bulungan) to the Long Segar (Kab. Kutai Barat), which takes many years. 12. Dance DatunThis dance is a dance with the girl Dayak Kenyah with an uncertain number, perhaps 10 to 20 people. According to history, dance together was created by a tribal chief in the Apo Kayan Kenyah Dayak named Nyik Selung, as a sign of gratitude and joy over the birth of a grandson. Later this dance developed throughout all the provinces of Dayak Kenyah. 13. Dance NgerangkauDance dance Ngerangkau is customary in the case of death of the Dayak tribe Tunjung and Benuaq. This dance uses the tools pounder rammed rice-knock on a regular basis in a horizontal position, giving rise to a certain rhythm. 14. Baraga Dance 'BagantarOriginally Baraga 'Bagantar is belian ceremony to treat infants with begging for help from Nayun Gantar. Now that this ceremony has become a dance composed by the Dayak tribe Benuaq.

Dramatic Arts Mamanda

Dramatic Arts Mamanda
Art Kutai traditional drama called Mamanda. The term probably derived from the term mamanda pamanda or uncle. The word is in a play is a call addressed to the king's minister, the Wajir or mangkubuminya as pamanda minister, Wajir and pamanda pamanda Mangkubumi.
Because the frequency of words spoken in each staging pamanda, then the term is a nickname for the art show itself.
Mamanda traditional dramatic art is one of the popular performing arts in Kutai in the past. Art is always shown on every national celebration, at weddings, circumcision and so forth.
Mamanda is one type of entertainment that the public liked. Mamanda can be equated with art Kethoprak and Ludruk in Java. If the scenario presented in Mamanda is about a kingdom, the staging is similar Mamanda Kethoprak.
But if that dilakonkan is common folklore, it is similar to staging Mamanda Ludruk. In pementasannya, Mamanda always use two types of musical instruments namely drum and violin.
This art is rarely performed in public. But at ERAU Festival in the city of Tenggarong, art Mamanda often displayed openly to fill one of the agenda of public entertainment. Meanwhile, through the local television media, the arts Mamanda shown once a week.