On Wednesday we had set off to visit the head hunter tribe Iban in their Long House in the rain forest. Headhunters scalpels nest in old days mainly Indonesians. On July 22, 1963 was signed an agreement to Sabah and Sarawerk should be fit in under Malaysian law and begin to educate themselves.
So after 1963 had not head hunt anymore, it still continued in some places five to end the 60s. The old headhunters who scalped another human being characterized their tattoos on the neck.
As a young man raised our guide much around the jungle and rain forest and in 1991 he stayed at a strain in which at the time he saw a man should hang by a bonefire. The shell had dermis, and he estimated we re back it to be about 8 years old. So, although it on the paper ceased end 60s, however, we re back it was practiced anywhere in recent decades.
On our way to the longhouse, we stopped at a small local market where our guide had to stock up some food. Emma, Victor and I went for a walk around and looked at the many impressions and the kids got something resembling a pancake, but somewhat thicker and with chopped peanuts and sugar inside ..
Black pepper is obtained by drying the picked peppercorns directly after harvesting, and the white requires we re back a little more work. The grains must be loaded into water for about 12 døgn.Efterfølgende you must use a special brush to take off the skin with and then they dry in the sun.
Just as the simple and primitive way they live. This saw Emma and Victor at close quarters out of pepper farm today, when a girl was sitting with no clothes on and shat in a trench behind the house. When she was finished, she took a bucket of water and washed the crack, while a dog helped her with her feces. Bon appetite, Emma and Victor were just about to go out of their fine skins and talked about it long after.
we stopped at a small restaurant by the road. There was dishing up fried Rice -and nodles, salad, egg spinach and chicken, for dessert got guava melon, Emma, however, was the only one who tasted the melon. One must say she's good to try and taste the things when we're traveling.
Most of the ride was along the hillside rainforest that borders against kalimatan, the Indonesian part of øengrænse against kalimatan. We laid back about 4 hours drive, reaching further and further into the country until we stopped at a river. Here we continued our journey to visit Lemanak Iban head hunter tribe offshore. We were led into a longboat, and would sail up the river and into the rainforest.
Just when we sailed into the jungle, my camera ran out of battery and I had obviously left the spare battery at home. All I could do was sit back and enjoy the "silence" - it's great spell his camera, but the experiences and things, is in some ways quite different when you do not see them through a lens!
We were received by the chief and some ladies who stood with a welcome drink, a some kind of liquor that tasted a bit of apple schnapps. We were not allowed to enter kanghuset before we re back we had tasted the goodies.
Here I had to break one of my principles I have held tightly to, and let the kids get a glass of alcohol. Again it was only Emma and I had the courage and took the small glass. Victor is somewhat reluctant and could use occasionally to make and taste other than the comfortable and familiar. Subsequently, greeted nicely in chief we had to put our shoes and so we had to step into the longhouse.
We were then told that photography we re back of tribal people were not allowed, without their permission. Actually understandably, since older women ran around we re back with heavy bare breasts, just like you see in old movies strain.
In the middle of the longhouse is a common we re back area and the right side is a small room, which is the families own houses, where they have all their belongings. we re back They live, father, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, children, grandchildren etc together in the small houses inside the longhouse. Their houses have small rooms, maybe 30 sqm. At one end is the kitchen, and in the attic are mattresses that are placed on the floor when it is sengetid.om day will be applied to rush mats if you have to sit and socialize over a cup of tea,
Our guide told us that there heard a little farmhus to this longhouse. Farm house could use if you wanted privacy. In a longhouse is the only life you have, namely under his mosquito net. In the afternoon we re back we walked around on their own and explored "the village", the kids were happy that we did not have to stay here for 3 weeks and suddenly it was "miserable" we re back hostle we live on, to luxury.
We went down to the riverside we re back where we helped the young men to paint a boat, they had just finished building. Then we went up in the long house and I tried to weave a rush mat, without much success.
On the left side of the longhouse, opposite to the side where private houses were, there is a raised platform, which is a kind of gathering. Most often it is here you sit on after
