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The Sea Dyak
Sarawak gazette • 38-40 • Published In 1910 • Pages: [HRAF pagination: 1-118]
By: Howell, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of thirty-nine articles culled from various issues of THE SARAWAK GAZETTE during the period 1908-1910. They were written by an English missionary who had spent many years among the Sea Dyak.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iban
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1908
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Howell
- No. 1, The Sea Dyak, Dec. 16, 1908, p. 309; No. 2, The Sea Dyak Religion, Jan. 2, 1909, p. 4; No. 3, Dyak Marriage Ceremonies, Jan. 16, p. 19; No. 4, [Missing] Feb. 1; No. 5, Dyak Custom when building a New house, Feb. 16, p. 44; No. 6, The Dyak Feast called 'Mandi Rumah,' March 1, p. 53; No. 7, Dyak Divorce, March 16, p. 66; No. 8, Dyak Burial Custom, April 1, p. 75; No. 9, Dyak Custom called 'Berantu,' April 16, p. 85; No. 10, Dyak custom when commencing a paddy farm, May 17, p. 111;No. 11, GAWAI BATU, or the Feast of the Whetstones, June 1, p. 124; No. 12, 'Nyinklan Benih,' or The Ceremony of touching the paddi seeds with blood, July 1, p. 146; No. 13, The preliminary ceremony of reaping the paddy; and 'Nyimpan padi,' or the ceremony of putting by paddy, July 16, p. 155; No. 14, 'Bemali umai' or to pronounce a paddy farm Tabooed, Aug. 16, p. 178; No. 15, The Hornbill or TENYELANG (BUCEROS RHINOCEROS.) Sept. 1, p. 185; No. 16, Dyak account of the Creation, Oct. 1, p. 208; No. 17, The Dyak Feast called BETENYALANG, Oct. 15, p. 218; No. 18, The Dyak feast called GAWAI BURONG, NIKAU KA BURONG or MRI KA BURONG MAKAI (meaning feeding the omen birds), Nov. 1, p. 228; No. 19, The Dyak head feast called ENCHABUARONG, Nov. 1, p. 228; No. 19 [sic], A surmise on the development of the custom of Diving among the Dyaks called BESELAM, Nov. 16, p. 239; No. 20, Dyak belief in MIMPI (dreams), Dec. 1, p. 256; No. 20 [sic], The Dyak account of the origin of the different languages of mankind, Dec. 16, p. 264; No. 21, TEJU REMAUNG or The lure of the Tiger, Feb. 16, 1910, p. 44; No. 22, The Dyak custom 'Nampok' or going to a Solitary place, March 1, p. 54; No. 23, Dyak Ceremonies in Pregnancy and Childbirth, March 16, p. 65; (No. 24), The Dyak feasts called 'Ijok' or 'Ijan Pumpong' or 'Sandong Lau'; 'Gawai Gajah' or'Begajah' and 'Gawai Ranyai' or 'Beranyai,' April 1, p. 77; No. 25, TUGONG or TUGONG BULA, April 16, p. 86; No. 26, LANGKAU AMPUN or PIRING or The hut for submission or offering, May 2, p. 95; No. 27, A prayer to make a Philter effectual, May 2, p. 96; No. 28, Dyak Customs when setting pig traps, May 16, p. 107; No. 29, PANDONG, Sept. 1, [n.p]; No. 30, The Sea Dyak custom of BEMPRIAN or BEPEREMBIAN, Sept. 16, p. 198; No. 31, BAIYA, and RAPUS or RAPOH, Sept. 16, p. 198; No. 32, An evil omen called SABUT, Sept. 16, p. 198; Dyak Fables: The Fable of the Medicine-man Gagak, Oct. 1, p. 208-209; The Fable of Kumang looking for Lemba, Nov. 16, p. 238-239; The Story of Venus (KUMANG) fishing with a scoop (PEMANSAI), Dec. 1, p. 248; The Story of a Mouse-Deer and the Crocodiles, Dec. 16, p. 259; The Story of Apai Aloi, Dec. 31, p. 267-268.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)