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Updated: June 27, 2025
The walls and partitions are mats of woven bamboo, and the roof is thatched with palm leaves . This very incomplete description leaves it open to suppose that the Karen house is very similar to that built by the Kayans when for any reason the latter build in hasty and temporary fashion.
But the still more scanty description of another writer implies that the arrangement of the interior of the house is unlike that characteristic of the Kayans. They frequently migrate to new sites. The Karens cultivate PADI and prepare the jungle land for cultivation by burning down the forest. They prepare from rice a spirit to which they are much addicted.
We made a trip of a few days' duration to the next elevation, Gunong Rega, in a northerly direction, most of the time following a long, winding ridge on a well-defined Punan trail. Toward the end of February I made my way back to the river. From our last camp, one day's march downward, three of my strongest Kayans had carried 45 kilograms each.
Their cult of the PETARA seems to show traces of Javanese and Hindu influence or origin. Ideas of the Soul Illustrated by Burial Customs, Soul-Catching, and Exorcism As among ourselves, several very different systems for the cure of sickness are practised among the Kayans, and these seem to imply very different theories of the cause of disease.
However, among the Kayans of the same region, who share the same view as to the ill effect of eating venison, men will partake of the dangerous viand provided it is cooked in the open air, for then the timid spirit of the animal is supposed to escape at once into the jungle and not to enter into the eater.
They seek above all things to take heads, to which they attach an extravagant value, unlike the Kayans and Kenyahs who seek heads primarily for the service of their funeral rites; and they not infrequently attack a house and kill a large number of its inmates in a perfectly wanton manner, and for no other motive that the desire to obtain heads.
Kayans, the most powerful and warlike people of Borneo, living inland. Kuching, the former name of the town of Sarawak. Lubuan, the island off Borneo river, ceded by the sultan to the British crown. Lelas, guns. Magindano, an island off the northeast of Borneo, the natives of which are pirates. Makassar, the straits of, usually written Macassar, but more accurately Mangkassar.
Klemantans use the domestic pig and fowl as sacrificial animals just as the Kenyahs and Kayans do, and they have the same superstitious dread of killing a dog. One group of them, Malanaus, use a dog in taking a very solemn oath, and sometimes the dog is killed in the course of this ceremony.
We do not know of any other animals to which especial respect or attention is paid by the Kenyahs. Animal Cults of the Kayans But as it is not possible to distinguish these two kinds of hawks when seen flying at some distance, they address and accept all large hawks seen in the distance as Laki Neho. The function and powers of Laki Neho seem to be almost identical with those of Bali Flaki.
This fact is brought home to him by the arrival of the ghost-souls of the various articles hung upon his tomb, which hurry after him, but only overtake him at this his first resting-place; and he bewails his unhappy fate. There are current among Kayans several versions of the further journey of the soul.
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