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Penan

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Penan The Penan The Penan of Sarawak are traditionally a nomadic people. They comprise 16,000 inhabitants living in the interior of north Sarawak in the headwaters of two major rivers, the Rejang and Baram. There are 19 settled or nomadic groups of the Eastern […]

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Edward Dari Kampong Panglima Seman Lama

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Edward Dari Kampong Panglima Seman Lama Kisah Edward dari Kampong Panglima Seman Lama Dari akhir Perang Dunia II sehingga pergantian abad ini, orang Melayu di seberang sungai dari Kuching hidup dalam kemiskinan yang teruk. Sementara anak-anak penduduk bandar mempunyai sekolah seperti St. Thomas, St.

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An Iban Tale

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us An Iban Tale A Bizarre Iban Tale. This story was found in the Sarawak Gazette and included a mixture of Iban and English. I have edited and organized the tale, so it makes sense to the reader.  In the village lived Kumang and Keles

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Japan and Sarawak

The Japanese in Sarawak Three decades after Emperor Meiji had begun his industrialisation programme in the 1860s, there was a prolonged period of economic recession in Japan due to a worldwide recession. The new industries, especially textile manufacturing which was a mainstay of Japan’s port trade, were severely affected, resulting in many factories closing and

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Wooden Figures of the Katangan River

Wooden Figures of the Katingan River The Dayaks of south-central Kalimatan practice a religion called kaharingan. It is practised by the people on the Katingan River.This essay deals with the sculptures called hamptaong.   The hampatongs are statutes that represent the souls of the departed. They distinguish themselves by their shape and location within the

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The Bone House

Bau and the Bidayuh Kampong Gumbang Kampong Gumbang is located in the rural Bau district of Sarawak. At the time (1986) the village was only available on foot, where the trail goes up and down through the secondary forest, with a long final climb to the village. Of special interest is one of the few

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Ketapang Borneo

Ketapang The Dayak kingdom was called “the Dayak Kingdom of the Headwaters.” It was located in the interior of Ketapang. The kingdom was a regional federation of the Dayak group, and the kingdom once controlled a large area that encompassed north of the Kapuas River. The kingdom lasted until the Dutch took over in the

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Sea People

Brunei and the Bajau by D.E. Brown Borneo Research Bulletin December 1971 Many parts of the southern Philippines were under the rule of Brunei in the early part of the 16th century. When the Spaniards tried to colonize the southern part, a long period of instability arose between the Baju and the Moslem people. The sea

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