pemasak

Updated: May 15, 2025

The period of time required for "cooking rice" mentioned in the tale is called one pemasak, equal to about half an hour. A Dayak went fishing and caught a patin which he took home in his prahu. He left the fish there and advised his wife, who went to fetch it.

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