(B) Old Pair of Dayak Earrings Brass Borneo Headhunter Large #1

Description

These are monsters! Collected the 1960's, these earrings were displayed in a bamboo case under glass for about 50+ years....
3 1/2" long. worn by the Dayak tribe of then Borneo, they were fierce warriors and head hunters and the people stretched their ear lobes using these such ear weights.  These extra large pair would have been reserved for a man of great power in the tribe  - Men stretched their earlobes just
to their
shoulders, while women as long were allowed to stretch them longer. weight around 205 grams.