We begin this series with a Dyak love story. The people were not half crazed lunatics charginging into the villages to take heads and drink blood, but were sensitive humans who took a head for the purpose of presenting it to his loved one. This poem, from the Sarawak Museum Journal of 1959, tells the […]
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This and That #5Sunda Clouded LeopardThe Sunda Clouded Leopard is the apex predator of Borneo yet little is known of its ecology reports the Journal of Threatened Taxa (vol. 12 No. 16). A ten year camera trap study revealed 11 individuals. (8 males, one female and two with unknown sex) Males remained in the area
This song seems to be part of a much longer song of praise as the young warriors return home. The word layak, the author was unable to translate. The reference to mushrooms is quite common in Kenyah songs. A Morik SongCome back to the place of your birth where your youth has been spentCome back
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