THE BIDAYUH LONGHOUSE

Bidayuh is also known as land Dayak. Dayak people is one of the native people in Borneo.

 

 

 

A bidayuh longhouse at Kampung Benuk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entering the longhouse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The corridor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The corridor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the beruk (a house for ceremony). In the past, Bidayuh used this house for performing some old traditional ceremony.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bamboo ladder in the center of beruk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting  artistic carving on a wood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The real human skulls hanging inside the dark house. In the ancient time, some native people in Borneo were head hunters. Borneo was used to call "The land of head hunter". Today, people do not practice this head hunting culture anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Close-up picture of real human skulls. In the past, people only hunted the head of their enemy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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