Akar Nusa
WHERE THE STORIES ON THIS SHELF HAPPENED. SHAPES ARE SCHEMATIC.
Stories on this shelf
16 written, 9 coming soon
Sarawak: 27 peoples on one river system
The rivers shaped who settled where.
Sarawak · 4 min readIban: the sea Dayaks of the Skrang and Rajang
The largest group in Sarawak, famed for longhouses and pua kumbu.
Sarawak · 3 min readGawai Dayak: harvest and a new year
A festival that ends the rice year, held on 1 June.
Sarawak · 4 min readPenan: nomads and settlers of the rainforest
A forest people, some still nomadic, living in the Baram and Belaga.
Sarawak · 4 min readFoochow of Sibu: the Rajang pioneers
A community led by Wong Nai Siong in 1901.
Sarawak · 4 min readThe longhouse: a village under one roof
The longhouse is the home of the Iban and many other peoples.
Sarawak · 4 min readIban migration: how they spread across Borneo
Waves of Iban moved along the Kapuas and Rajang.
Sarawak · 4 min readBidayuh: the Land Dayaks of the hills
Hill farmers of Serian and Bau with the baruk house.
Sarawak · 4 min readMelanau: sago people of the coast
A coastal people with a wooden-tomb tradition.
Sarawak · 4 min readKenyah: the Orang Ulu of the upper Baram
Known for art and carved longhouses.
Sarawak · 4 min readKayan: the stratified rainforest people
A people with chiefs, nobles and commoners.
Sarawak · 4 min readKelabit: rice from the Bario highlands
Famous for the Bario rice and cool highland farms.
Sarawak · 4 min readMalay of Sarawak
Coastal people of Kuching and the Sarawak river.
Sarawak · 4 min readHakka, Hokkien and Teochew in Sarawak
Three Chinese groups with their own towns and trades.
Sarawak · 4 min readPua kumbu: the Iban cloth that tells a story
Woven cloth carrying dreams and family patterns.
Sarawak · 4 min readCross-Borneo kinship: Kalimantan, Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak
Many peoples live across the borders.
Lun Bawang of Lawas and Limbang
Highland farmers sharing a border with Sabah.
Bisaya, Berawan and Lisum
Smaller peoples of the Baram coast.
Sebob, Punan and the forest nomads
Small peoples who still carry old forest ways.
The White Rajahs and who came
The Brooke family shaped who settled in Sarawak.
Niah Caves: swiftlet nests and ancient bones
The nest gatherers of Niah and their ladders.
Mulu: caves, people and sacred places
A UNESCO site with Berawan and Penan neighbours.
Sape and the Orang Ulu songs
The sape lute is the voice of the rainforest.
Sarawak languages: Austronesian voices of Borneo
Borneo's languages show a story of settlement.
Sarawak's Indian and Eurasian families
A small but old Indian presence in the Sarawak towns.
4 family lines linked to this shelf
A line being common in a place does not mean everyone there carries it, and it never settles who anyone is.
