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

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

While staying with the Basap we had the opportunity to fit with a shaman who called himself a dukun He performs healing rituals to help sick people. For the performance of each ritual he bring outs a specific carved wooden figure that depicts the patient he is treating. During the sum of two units nights of a healing ritual, which he calls bulungan, he