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The Murut costume for men comprised a jacket made of tree bark Artocarpus tamaran, a red loincloth and a headdress also made of tree bark decorated with Argus pheasant feathers. The costume for women is a short, black, sleeveless blouse and a long, black skirt decorated with colorful beads. |
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Costume of Women |
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Pinongkolo |
Traditional costume
of women comprising a blouse and a long wrap-skirt of black cotton, and
decorated with beadwork. The decorated blouse is called babaru
linantian and the wrap-skirt tapi’ linantian. |
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Pipirot |
Belts of silver
coins (pipirot linggit) and various type of beads. Most
popular being the aki' nampalur, kotos, bungkas, aki’ and olod. |
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Salupai |
A headdress of
several rows beads. When there are many strings, there are shaped into a
round skullcap. The salupai functions as a support for the
sinikot. |
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Sinikot |
A set of three
hairpins, with the sinikot tataun in the middle and two
sinikot surai on both side of the hairbun. The larger sinikot tataun
has the longest strings of tiny beads floating downwards to the middle
of the back. |
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Rarangkol |
Necklaces of various
types of beads usually in certain order according to the length:
bungkas, kotos, aki’ pangungupu’, bulul and olod, etc. |
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Holong |
A pair of bracelets.
If made from shell (probably the shell of the giant sea calm), they are
called holong silou. |
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Costume of Men |
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Babaru puputul
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Bark
vest. The bark comes from the puputul tree (artocaprus
kunstleri). It is cut lengthwise to fashion sleeveless jackets and
loincloths. The fiber of pineapple leaves was used and decorated with
simple beadwork motifs. |
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Aba puputul
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Loincloth of
approximately 2 meters long made of inner back of the puputul
tree. The fabric is passed between the legs and wound around the
waist. Modern cotton aba (aba ra kain) are cut as shorts
with lengths of cloth attached to front and back, more or less like
apron. Red cloth is common because red is used to symbolize bravery.
Cotton appliqué of zig-zag motifs (rinda-rinda or rinipon kapit). |
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Tupi'sinulatan |
Headband of tree-bark decorated with feathers, preferably of the
tuwou (Argus pheasant), or a pair of sinikot. |
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Some stylized motifs on Murut
traditional costume |
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| sinusu' |
Peacock
neck feathers |
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inimburu |
Leech-like motif
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inakaang |
Zig-zag / tips of leaves of the puputul tree arranged in a row
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| sinuli
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Bamboo
slats flooring |
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kalayam manuk |
Chicken feet-like motif |
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sinusulou |
Sulou-like motif (sulou = the giant
sea clam |
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mato nu orou |
Sun-like motif |
Source :
An Introduction To The Traditional Costumes of Sabah edited by Rita Lasimbang
& Stella Moo-Tan, Published by Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd in
association with Department of Sabah Musuem, 1997