THE ABANDONED VILLAGE
Around 900 feet, we arrived at an abandoned village called Kampung Jagoi
Gunong. I had an eerie feeling when entering this "ghost" village. Somemore I
saw the Human skulls in a small hut!!!
Welcome to the abandoned village.
Where is everyone?
Am I entering into another dimension?
Looking around...but we still couldn't find anyone.
The Human skulls!
Human skulls found in this small "storage hut":
Decoration on an empty house:
"Ghost" village...
Old longhouse:
Everyone in this village is disappeared???
When we're walking towards Baruk(a house for ceremony) , we saw some clothes hanging on the bamboo poles.
There, we met the last family in the village. According to a young Bidayuh
villager, everyone was moved down to the foothill since long time ago because
the elder people found inconvenient to move around in the mountain area. This
last family will join them soon once their newly constructed house at the
foothill is completed. At that time, this village will consinder an abandoned
village.
The Human skulls are the skulls of their ancestor. Every August, all the
villagers from foothill will hike to their old village to celebrate Gawai
Antu and the skulls will carry out by villagers from the hut to the Baruk
for the Gawai Antu ceremony.