An occasional paper consisting of current research pertaining to Borneo. Pua Kumbu and Title History Using a pua kumbu from Borneo, the author tries to show the title of the piece, Remung, evokes the mythical tiger flying spirit , who, in ritual chants, is supposed to guard the rice bin filled with human heads. Remaung […]
Melanau Tale On the Oya river, a few bends above Tamin and just below Skuau, there once lived two brothers whose Chieftain father had died. Both were still young, kind to everyone in the village and good at every undertaking. The elder of the two was elected to succeed his father and was acclaimed by
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The Selako are one of the dyak groups living in Lundu between Malaysia and Indonesia on the border. Batang Saka ‘ampat is a cluster of about 20 houses. (1978) After the birth of the child, the umbilical cord is cut off off by the midwife (bidan) with a bamboo splint. (panatak pusat) The child is
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Note: This is a first person essay which I have abbreviated to fit the Internet form of reading. Enjoy ! I arrived in Kuching at the end of October, 1971. The monsoon season had just brought the first and longer lasting rains of the wet season. What was I doing in Sarawak? “everything about Tarsius”.
Each evening, my wife and sit out on our balcony on the 20th floor of the Riverine Condo. We often light a candle, have dinner and discuss the days’ passing. This is our time. After sunset, we see a boat and a man circling the above buoy. He usually has a head lamp on and
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Probably one of the most hilarious stories I have read in the Sarawak Museum Journal, if that publication can ever be called hilarious, is an article by Barbra Harrison entitled “Near to Ngadju”.Here she relates the tales from the Rhinish Mission of Barmen Germany. The Rhinish missionaries were in search of new lands to conquor
Each evening, my wife and sit out on our balcony on the 20th floor of the Riverine Condo. We often light a candle, have dinner and discuss the days’ passing. This is our time. After sunset, we see a boat and a man circling the above buoy. He usually has a head lamp on and
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“Spurn not the loopy leech with language lurid Annelids have much to teach The anak murid” Christine (my youngest daughter) and I first came to Sarawak in 2008 and knew we were going into the jungle. We purchased those leech guards which protected your ankles and legs from what we thought were vicious biting creatures.
An occasional paper about the current research related to Borneo Two new philodendrons (Homalomineae Araceae) from Borneo have been made known to the western world. They are restricted to sandstones and forested karsts in the Sarawak area. Sing Yeng Wong of Unimas and Peter C. Boyce are the people who found them_____________________________________________________Vetty Ng in her
An occasional paper related to current research aligned to Borneo Melanu and Numbers The way a society thinks is important in development. When one combines numbers into that thinking the results can be astounding. Suffina Long and Yahutazi in the November issue of the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities have related how numbers and
