All hail the procession: An integral expression of Sarawak culture

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Karen Shepherd SOME of my earliest memories of Sarawak surround processions, the cavalcade of noise and light and colour snaking through...

Prehistoric gibbons and monkeys from Niah, and the Dutch palaeontologist Dirk Albert Hooijer

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Lim Tze Tshen MODERN PRIMATES IN BORNEO AND AROUND NIAH NATIONAL PARK PERHAPS due to their human-like nature and complex social behaviour,...

Adventure to Batu Lawi

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Datuk John Tenewi Nuek After a very interesting talk by Datuk John Tenewi Nuek about Mount Singai and its heritage, history...

Belief in existence of spirits part of Adat Oma of Bisingai people

By Shikin Louis KUCHING, Jan 21: Since the olden days, the Bisingai, a sub-group of the Bidayuh ethnic group, have always believe in the existence...

A note on the conservation of the Pandan Klirieng

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Calvin Agau Jemarang Following up from an earlier article on klirieng, here is an account of the actual preservation and restoration...

The untold story of the Kliriengs of Lulau Belak

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Calvin Agau Jemarang After a recent very interesting and informative talk at the Borneo Cultures Museum under the “Sarawak Snapshots—Museum Talks”...

Bringing home two Orang Ulu parangs: An international story of a 100-year journey

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Dr Louise Macul WHEN we visit the Sarawak Museum, we learn many things about the objects we see, but have you...

An early photographer to Sarawak

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Alex Teoh A double page spread of the Illustrated London News on 4 January 1873 shows a stately print with the...

How many Indians were there on Mount Matang?

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By Jutta Kelling With the Indian Festival of light Diwali just gone, here is some more information on the ancestors of the...

Nosing out the dragons in Sarawak: In the footsteps of G.H.R. von Koenigswald

Heritage Snippets of Sarawak By LIM Tze Tshen IN SARAWAK, dragons exist not only in local stories and legends, such as those fascinating accounts told by...