duyan

Updated: June 23, 2025

Aided by the sumpitan the Dayaks and Punans are expert in bringing down the rather shy birds of the tall trees. Three hours later we had managed to carry all our goods above the kiham Duyan, which is only one hundred metres long, but with a fall of at least four metres; consequently in its lower part it rushes like a disorderly waterfall.

Carl Lumholtz - Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917