- the most impressive of all the showcase houses when it comes to appearance.
- the house is built on raised floors some feet above ground amidst lush tropical
greenery.
- In fact, on the first glance, you can mistake the long house as being an exquisite and
luxuries jungle resort with its open-air veranda, superb traditional motifs painted on
the totem poles, artistically-rich equipment and tools, etc.
open-air veranda
traditional motifs
Equipment and tools
- Features the most colorfully-dressed ladies that you can find throughout the
village.
- The ladies will perform a welcoming dance at the main veranda while the
visitors are being serenaded by the beautiful tunes from the traditional
wooden xylophone called Jatung Lutang.
- The musician, who seems to be unable to converse in Malay or English, is
more than happy to demonstrate the unique musical tunes that comes out
from the Jatung Lutang.
- The house also showcases a number of sape, the increasingly well-known
string musical instrument. The process of carving a sape from either tropical
woods or bamboos is also being demonstrated in the house.
the ladies in colourfully-dressed
welcoming dance
Jatung Lutang
The musician
- Outside the long house is a small hut where metal swords are fabricated. The process, requiring adept skills and profound craftsmanship, is a dying art and should not be missed altogether.
metal swords
A dying art
2. Melanau Tall House
-Visitors will be amazed when first seeing the Melanau Tall House in the cultural village.
- It is built some 40 feet above ground that you will wonder how these tribal people, isolated from common modernity, were able to build such a behemoth.
Melanau Tall House
The Behemoth
- In as much as the house itself being an engineering marvel of its own, there are reasons why the house is built in such way.
the house
- The main reason, according to the literature, is that the coastal areas where the Melanau live are prone to frequent pirate attacks from the sea, hence the tall house is some sort of protection against these perpetrators.
- the river delta that the people call home is also subjected to occasional flooding that having a house with the floors raised considerably above ground is a necessity rather than a cosmetic pursuit. - There are staircases provided for visitors to enter the tall house.
First Staircase
- First Staircase: bring you to the first floor where the display of tools and utensils associated with ethnic Melanau is available throughout.
Tools and utensils
- Second Staircase : another staircase made of tree trunks to the second floor where the bedroom models are showcased. Climbing these trunk- staircase is an acquired skill on its own and caution should be exercised.
Second staircase made of tree trunks
- 1st point of interest :
Tibau Swing used during Pesta Kaul, a festival uniquely attributed to ethnic Melanau.
Tibau Swing
- 2nd point of interest : where the personnel will be more than happy to demonstrate the intricate process of making this staple food. You can also get the chance to sneak a taste of a local sweet delicacy called kuih tebaloi.
Sago-making methods
3. Bidayuh Long House -
At the main entrance, one will enter a pavilion-like circular structure made of mostly bamboos.
Circular structure made of mostly bamboos
- This circular structure, connected to the longhouse by a wooden plank, is known as Baruk which functions as the congregation place for the Bidayuh warriors.
Baruk
- The Baruk's interior is filled with weapons, gongs, wooden masks and other personal effects. There is a raised platform right in the middle of the Baruk. If you look straight up from the platform, you will see human skulls hung from the roof top. According to the lady inside the Baruk, those human skulls are real and they were once the enemies killed by Bidayuh warriors.
weapons
gongs
wooden masks
- The long house is actually pretty decent. The internals are quite similar to other longhouses you can find in the cultural village, with the exception of an open-top sprawling veranda made of bamboo floors which I thought was quite nice. - Another feature that worth a mention inside the longhouse is a demonstration of artistic bamboo carving.
Internals of long house Bamboo Cravings
- The middle-aged artist who was at this section explained that only special types of bamboo are suitable for this dying work of art. - The finished bamboo products will certainly make excellent stationery holders or beautiful wall decorations.
middle-aged artist
stationery holders
4. Iban Long House - the Iban House bears close resemblance to the Bidayuh House. - The longhouse is built of local timbers tied together with naturally-harvested fibre woods.
Iban Long House
- Since the real Iban longhouses are often erected near the major rivers of Sarawak,the design emulates a raised floor concept to ensure the occasional surge of river flow will not enter the longhouse.
- Among the traditional activities showcased in the Iban House are kuih jala making, kain pua kumbu weaving (an exquisite decorative cloth that Sarawak is famous for) and tuak processing (alcoholic beverage made from rice wine).
Kuih Jala Making
Kain Pua Kumbu weaving
- The house also showcases a variety of tools and equipment for hunting (yes, head-hunting and for animals too), musical instrument such as drums and gongs, et cetera.
Tools and Equipment for Hunting
Musical Instrument
Traditional Dresses
5. Malay Kampung House
- The showcase house is taken out from a typical home design of traditional Malay
villages commonly found in parts of Sarawak and most parts of Peninsula Malaysia.
- The House is built on stilts some metres above ground.
- There is a reason for that: houses built on the ground are prone to be flooded and
not to mention the uninvited guests in the form of crawling creatures (snakes,
centipedes, etc).
Showcase House of Melayu
- It is a customary practice to open your shoes at the verdana prior to entering a Malay House.
- village personnel were seen playing with a traditional game of congkak (try it, it is quite fun) while chit-chatting about their daily life.
Veranda
congkak
- The middle section of the house is considered to be the bedroom area, although there are atypical designs where there are further separation walls as demarcation of the proper bedroom.
- After the bedroom area, you can see the kitchen area with cooking utensils and dining tables.
- There is an attic above the bedroom area connected by a wooden staircase.
- It is used commonly for storage space only and not for communal living mainly due to the relatively hotter air close to the rooftop.
cooking utensils
the attic
- Another common but unique feature of a Malay house is the open-air grills on the side
windows to allow better air circulation.
- Outside the house compound is a special pavilion where top spinning (main gasing) sessions are occasionally demonstrated to the public.
special pavilion
6. Chinese Farm House
- While most modern-day Chinese of Sarawak lives in brick terrace houses and bungalows, the cultural showcase in this village presents a typical Chinese Farmhouse.
Chinese Farmhouse
- The house is built on ground level unlike most tribal houses in Sarawak which are built on raised platforms some metres above ground.
- The House is made of basic sawn timber and the floor surprising reveals the bare earth (of either clay soil, or sands). The roof (atap) is made of leaves taken from local-grown rumbia trees which are known to withstand the test of time.
- Two main divisions in the farmhouse : - communal living area
- important shrine
- Communal Living Area- has the kitchen, dining tables and storage space for personal belongings, as well as the bedroom.
Important Shrine- where the house residents will offer their daily prayers.
Communal Living Area
Important Shrine
- The village personnel attending the house can also demonstrate a few traditional
methods on:
* processing bird's nests
* grinding black papers
* making Chinese tea
* assembling Chinese brooches
* sculpting clay potteries
- outside the farmhouse, there is a traditional furnace used to bake the potteries into the hardened stoneware we commonly seen in souvenir stores.
Traditional Furnace
Name : Linda Lau Ling Ling
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Responsibility : Description of Attractive Places at Sarawak Cultural Villages
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This link provides the information and knowledge about several cultural villages that situated in Sarawak. The famous villages are Orang Ulu Long House, Melanau Tall House, Bidayuh Long House, Iban Long House, Malay Kampung House, and Chinese Farm House. This link is created so that visitors who visit my link will enjoy reading and can get knowledge about the special characteristics and features of different Sarawak Cultural Villages. Besides that, perhaps the visitors will have satisfaction about the information given and have plan travel to Sarawak. Pictures are attached and description are given below the pictures in my page. Furthermore, The icon buttons of each village have a hornbill, is used as an a symbol to represent the state of Sarawak. This idea is used to match our tittle.
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