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Song Sarawak (Borneo) in 1960s. The Kayan people were the first group that inhabited the Song District. At that time, the Kayans were a nomadic people. At the same time, the Iban people migrated from the present day Kalimantan, Indonesia and settled near the banks of the Katibas River (located in the Song District) to find land for farming.
This film marks the first full-length feature to be shot in Sarawak and the first time an Iban woman played the lead role [56] Bejalai is a 1987 film directed by Stephen Teo, notable for being the first film to be made in the Iban language and also the first Malaysian film to be selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. The film is ...
The Iban population is concentrated in Brunei, the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and the Malaysian state of Sarawak. They traditionally live in longhouses called rumah panjai in Sarawak or betang (trunk) in West Kalimantan, [1] [2] because the jointed family rooms are built by jointing the tree trunks from base to tip to the left and ...
The album was accompanied by music videos directed by Cosmas Moses Alexander. [5] The following year, Masterpiece released Ngap Sayot through an independent music label, Do Records Entertainment, which also crediting Roslee Qadir for his lyrics on the Sarawak Malay version of "Ngap Sayot".
Masterpiece is an Iban rock band, which formed in 2003 as Masterjam in Sibu, Sarawak best known for its hit singles, "Sinu", "Kumang Seari" & "Ngarap Ka Nuan Nikal Pulai". The band comprises vocalist Depha Masterpiece , lead guitarist Willy Edwin , guitarist Kennedy Edwin , bassist Watt Marcus , drummer Harold Vincent, keyboardist Valentine ...
Kenyah dance. The Kenyah people, traditionally being swidden agriculturalists [5] and living in longhouses (uma dado'), [6] is an umbrella term for over 40 sub-groups that mostly share common migration histories, customs, and related dialects.
After eating, the families of the longhouse are visited by guests. A short longhouse may have ten to thirty family rooms while moderately long may have thirty to fifty family rooms. A very long longhouse may have fifty to one hundred family rooms. It is common for Dayaks to recite and discuss their genealogy (tusut in Iban) to reinforce kinships.
In Sarawak it is estimated that there are fewer than 30 kelirieng left standing. The Punan still practise a secondary burial ceremony, whereby the dead body is kept at their longhouses for at least 3–7 days. This is partly to give more time for far-away relatives to pay their last respects to the deceased.