Help with identifying please???

could they be from Borneo..?

 

I think Philippines.
The 'Warrior Princess' possibly from Hollywood.

 

My guess is Cambodia

The Warrior Princess looks much more defined than the other 3, as if the paint was applied a little less liberally. She almost seems inspired by the other three (w/ a little comic book fantasy thrown in). Is that just photo quality? Do they all have the same signature?

 

I would think the barrel ear plugs would be a give a way......
normally i can guess from the baskets...but not here !

 

of all the nude or semi nude painting we encounter here........
this is by far the best I've seen......

I like the composition...her wading toward her dugout....prey caught....and confident in her ability as a provider and secure in her womanhood !

 

These look similar but that may not mean anything. They may look similar in many places where ear gauging is customary.

 

but the pipe and beads.....seem to point in your direction....

 

and this headdress

 

I like the pictures of the two older people best ... such character in their lovely faces !!! ... Joy.

 

Here are mine from the Palanng Tribe, migrated from Burma and originally first identified in southern China. .999 fine silver.

 

how often do you wear them...? ...

 

Going on @jsnggltt lead, I tried finding similar pipes/tools.

Sadly, I don't know enough about the area to discern, but these photos are variously described as photos of the Montagnard/Dega people, Dalat hill tribe, Ma People ... one photo may be described as all of the above on conflicting web pages. All Vietnamese tribes.






Auction listing as Montagnard pipes


Listed as Montagnard crossbow

 

the guy with the spear....looks familiar...

 

one of the many tribes living in the mountains (montagnards is French for mountain people).
seems they have problems because they are Christians. probably one of the many mountain tribes that fought for the French and ate baguette till the French were replaced by the glorious US army, Coke and hamburgers.

https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2011/03/31/vietnam-forte-persecution-de-la-communaute-des-montagnards

 

He was clearly marked Ma, but it was on Pinterest and I could not get to the origin site. I wanted to find out more because while I found many variations of this "over the shoulder" blade, this one (though it is hard to see) is the only one very much shaped like the painting.

May see if I can re-find today and break out of pinterest hell.

 

Well, I ended up down a research rabbit hole last night and while looking for a generic book on the "many tribes living in the mountains" discovered a publisher that has been (in the past 2-3 years) publishing a bunch of books on the textiles of various tribes/regions/peoples and now my "wishlist" on Amazon is about a gazillion books heavy.

And not kindle heavy, physical book heavy.

 

From the Wikipedia list of List of Birds of Vietnam, I found the Greylag Goose, but they are in too many places to be of any id help.

But of course, may not be the right bird.

Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0