As the result of extensive field research conducted by MUSEC, this temporary exhibition presented for the first time in the world a selection of ceremonial headgear from the Dayak people, the native inhabitants of the world’s third largest island. Also, on display are rare liturgical objects of the priests and large carved poles depicting ancestors and deities, which together with the hats presents the contexts and meanings of an ancient tradition passed down orally from generation to generation. The exhibition is the result of extensive field research and the MUSEC team’s dialogue with the last living female artists from the Borneo rainforest. Strictly women, they hand down the tradition of the art of making ceremonial bamboo hats adorned with decorative motifs depicting important deities and elements of the natural world. Knowledge of the decorations opens the door to a fascinating journey into the forms of the imagination, the knowledge of medicine and the roots of the identity of a thousand-year-old tradition at risk of historicization. The fieldwork was carried out in agreement with the local community leaders and the government of the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan, which also awarded MUSEC an honour for its work in enhancing the local cultural heritage in respect of the values and traditional belief system of the native peoples of the province.