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DAYAKNESE’S CUSTOM

            Belikai is a village in countryside of Kapuas Hulu, west Borneo. Located in 140 kilometers south of Putussibau. People still depend nature. They believe in animist. They live in the home which their clear “ Rumah Betang “. Dayak’s clan never using the modern cooker. They always using stone for a low, Kelupih leaf for a bowl and each.

            Their daily activity is nick a tree rubber. A piece home have apiary which there  is a Boar. They are very clever to farming.

            Their agriculture was based upon shifting cultivation techniques and the cultivation of dryland rice. They also cultivate sago, and go hunting and fishing. Their society knows aristocrats. They are known for good carvings and metalworks.

            Be counted as a rule to the “orang ulu” which can reproduce itself in the 19^th century mainly for the practice of head hunting known. They also wore tattoos as neighboring peoples and extended ear lobes in both sexes. They language of the dayak’s language.

            They have various folkways one of them is Nyobeng. This one done by the dayak punan tribe. White and yellow rice thrown while reading mantras by the chieftain. When you sign place of ceremony the group give a splash of water and then give a spell with anjuang leaf, which serves as a starting reinforcements. The goal of give a splash and give a spell for the guests to avoid disaster when entering the ceremony, guest must tread gourd fruit place in basin is better known as the ritual pepasan.

            They are wealth people in their area and always doing something with together. They are really love a p