Dayak community mainly in the Dayak Kanayatn in West Kalimantan, known sculpture sculpture that serves as ajimat, completeness or as a ritual ceremony. Sculpture as ajimat made of different wood species that are considered efficacious to resist disease or restore the spirit of the sick. 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.
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.
There is also a statue sculpture made with a specific purpose, one of which is pantak. The Dayaks of old, have a tradition to commemorate important figures in the group who have died, namely by making pantak. Pantak is a wooden statue of the Dayak tribe in West Kalimantan who face the same or similar symbolic figure who has died and will be remembered for it. Pantak made of wood choices. Wood that will be made pantak not arbitrary. In the manufacturing process, starting from the process of planning, selecting wood, making, to complete must use a traditional ceremony. How to make it certainly a manner carved.
Wooden statues Dayak tribe does have its own peculiarities. From start to form an always-carved sculpture showing typical Dayak tribe until the function and meaning was different from other sculpture. Now the sculptures of wood carving works of the Dayak tribe has been widely used to decorate the house or as a souvenir of interest many people.
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