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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Long House : Not Just For Living


Long House of Saham. Photo Courtesy Pontianak Post



If you hear about a name of long house , you will no longer wondering if you are really reside around in Landak, and other places of West Kalimantan in general. But for other regions, the length of the house share is very unique. There are lots of tourist objects now reside in District of Sanggau and the long house is one of their unique tourist ones.

The long house of Saham established in 1875. The long House consists of 35 doors and 180 meters long which is inhabited by ethnic Dayak Kanayatn Hill. The Social life of communities to uphold customs, traditions, culture and life together or in Indonesia can be called as "gotong royong". At home there is a long artist's woodcut engraver purchase (Ulin), and other hard wood. Located in the Hamlet Stocks, Shares Village, District of Sengah Temila.

Saham village in West Kalimantan usually consisted of a long house and the houses that follow a single pattern of the present. Previous entire population living in one house long as one group of people. For the Dayak people, not just the length of House functions as a dwelling house, but also as a center of culture and tradition. Dayak cultural heritage as Kanayatn, long in the house as an object worthy of Shares tourism. The factors that support activities that are cultural, arts, customs, religious life, agriculture, livelihood, life form. As a cultural center also houses the length of the birth center is a kind of art that are associated directly with the customs in the form of ceremonies.

The Dayak people always mark each event in the life of the ceremony, this is the condition of birth in dance, music, sculpture, tattoo art, art weave, weaving, culinary, and so forth. For example the ritual and end the process of farming. Before the planting season started, made the ceremony to bless all the equipment used in agriculture, with the traditional ceremony for a blessing from the spirits and ancestors Jubata (the Most High).

The entire series of agricultural processes have closed the ceremony with utter gratitude (Naik Dango). In this tradition is usually the Dayak people in the house long Stocks appear with best traditional clothes, jewelry, dance, music, food, food and drink typical Dayak tradition. The entire series of the ceremony can still be found in our homes Length Shares. If we want to visit to this place is not too difficult and easy means of transportation it is located around 52 km from Ngabang be using the car with the 1.5 hours.

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