Dayak Bahau

The sources identify Dayak Bahau as a sub-ethnic group within the Apo Kayan (Apokayan) family of peoples in Borneo, inhabiting areas of East Kalimantan (including a documented presence in West Kutai Regency). Scholarly and ethnographic materials treat the group in terms of ethnic classification, territorial distribution, and cultural practices rather than ascribing a mythic cosmogony for a named supernatural entity called 'Dayak Bahau.'

No physical description of a supernatural being called 'Dayak Bahau' is present in the supplied sources. The referenced visual culture of Dayak communities that include Dayak Bahau comprises carved wooden masks associated with Hudoq ritual performance, material objects such as child carriers (documented in auctions), and other ritual paraphernalia discussed in ethnographic and conservation-related literature.

The supplied materials do not document powers or supernatural behaviors attributed to an entity named 'Dayak Bahau.' They do, however, describe communal ritual practices—most notably Hudoq, a masked ritual connected with agricultural activity around the Mahakam River—and local traditions such as Apang Aruq, which are presented as symbolic-philosophical cultural practices among Dayak Bahau communities.