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Meet Borneo's Dayak tribespeople - the indigenous nomadic farmers of Sarawak, Brunei and Indonesia's Kalimantan. If you think of 'Dayaks', you might just picture a headhunter - and you're not entirely wrong.


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Iban people. Iban traditional wedding attire in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2019. The Ibans or Sea Dayaks are an Austronesian ethnic group indigenous to Borneo. [4] The Ibans are also known as Sea Dayaks and the title Dayak was given by the British and the Dutch to various ethnic groups in Borneo island.


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THE PEOPLE OF BORNEO Borneo is home to nearly 18 million people, nearly doubling since 1980. Borneo, like New Guinea, has long had two very different populations: lowly populated, highly tribalized groups in the inaccessible interior and relatively dense agricultural populations along the coast and the lower floodplains of major rivers.


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The Dayak (/ ˈ d aɪ. ə k / ⓘ; older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are one of the native groups of Borneo. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic groups, located principally in the central and southern interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory, and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily identifiable.


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The Punan people of the island of Borneo were once rumored to have tails, so elusive did they seem to their neighbors in the 19th century.


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Dayak is a generic term that has no precise ethnic or tribal significance. Especially in Indonesian Borneo ( Kalimantan ), it is applied to any of the (non- Muslim) indigenous peoples of the interior of the island (as opposed to the largely Malay population of the coastal areas).


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TRIBAL PEOPLE OF BORNEO By one count there are 300 ethnic groups in Borneo. Indigenous groups like the Dayaks, Penan, Iban speak their own languages, many of which are grouped in the Kayanic family which in the Western Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language group. Many follow customary laws known as "adat" and taboos known a "pli ".


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Borneo ( / ˈbɔːrnioʊ /; also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra .


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Borneo, the third largest island in the world, is still sparsely populated, but it has a remarkable ethnic diversity. This book examines that diversity - in economic and social life, political organization, religion, worldview and material culture - and shows that, beneath these variations, there are common social and cultural features that can be traced back to the Austronesian-speaking.


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The indigenous peoples of the Heart of Borneo are commonly known as Dayak. The term was coined by Europeans referring to the non-Malay inhabitants of Borneo. There are over 50 ethnic Dayak groups speaking different languages.


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A Bornean elephant Sumatra is the only place on Earth where tigers, rhinos, orangutans, and elephants live together. The forests of Borneo and Sumatra are home to marvelous creatures like the proboscis monkey, sun bear, clouded leopard, and flying fox bat, and endangered animals like the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhino, and Bornean elephant.


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Niah Cave Niah Cave, Sabah, East Malaysia, on Borneo. Evidence for prehistoric human occupation of Borneo has been found at Neah Cave in Sarawak, including fossil bones, stone tools, and wall and ceiling paintings. Borneo is first mentioned in Ptolemy 's Guide to Geography of about 150 ce.


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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. NepGrower Earth's third largest island is Borneo. It is exceeded in size only by Greenland and New Guinea. Like them it is thinly populated. Its mountainous interior is covered with tangled rainforest populated chiefly by aboriginal Dayaks, who at one time excelled as headhunters in intertribal warfare.


Gawai Dayak Festival in Borneo Where to Celebrate

A study led by Northwestern University plant biologists has determined that a species of fruit-bearing tree found in Borneo and the Philippines, long considered by Western botanists to be a single species, is actually two genetically distinct species. The findings confirm what the Iban people, who are indigenous to Borneo, already knew from.


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Dec. 14, 2023, 5:26 PM ET (The Star) Any move to limit PM post to single race divisive to Borneo. Show More Borneo Borneo, island in the extreme southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. It is the third largest island in the world, surpassed in size by only Greenland and New Guinea.


North Borneo (Sabah) Murut man in traditional costume. Borneo, South kalimantan, West kalimantan

At the dawn of the second millennium, before the Europeans came to East Africa, the Banjar people from southeast Borneo sailed 7,000 kilometres across the Indian Ocean and colonised the Comoros.

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