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IBANS TERRITORY

BY:GROUP 4


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IBAN LONGHOUSE

The Iban are one of many groupsof indigenous people still living inBorneo and unlike the Penan tribe,who hunt and move around every

few days, the Iban are settlerswho live in a communal longhouse

a wooden structure built onstilts, with one side sectioned o!

into a row of separate familyrooms and the other used an open

social area and meeting space"


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THE LOCATION OF

LONGHOUSE

The longhouse #rumah$ formsthe principal local community"In the Paku all longhouses arelocated along the banks of themain Paku %iver and its chief

tributaries& the Bangkit, 'nyutand (erudit streams"


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THE LOCATION OF

LONGHOUSE

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STRUCTURE OF

LONGHOUSE

(tructurally, each houseconsists of a series of familyapartments arranged side by

side" The same term bilikrefers to both the longhouse

apartment and the familygroup that occupies it" The

bilik)family typically consistsof three generations *grandparents, a son or

daughter, his or her spouse


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STRUCTURE OF

LONGHOUSE

ronting the biliks is acovered, unpartitioned gallerycalled the ruai" This runs the

entire length of the houseand, while divided into family

sections #each built andmaintained by an individual

bilik family$ the whole isavailable for communal use"The wall that separates the

biliks from the ruai thus


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STRUCTURE OF

LONGHOUSE

The roof made of sago palmleaves " The walls are made ofwood " The -oors are made of

bamboo, wood or bark"Thestaircase made of notched

logs with Beliong "


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BLUEPRINT OF

LONGHOUSE

EXAMPLE OF


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EXAMPLE OF

LONGHOUSES


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