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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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