Sunday, May 1, 2011

kalimaran festival

celebrated by the Murut tribes of Sabah is a festival to honor the Murut traditions. Pesta Kalimaran is akin to the Kaamatan Festival.

THE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
 the various sub-ethnic groups that make up the Murut population, their traditional handicrafts and their traditions, such as marriage ceremony, and other folk-lore. Handicrafts that are very popular with the native tribes of Sabah are beads, and the motifs that are found on the various costumes. Also on display are artifacts that are past down from generations, such as jars and urns which are used gifts, and weaponry of the Murut.

have the opportunity to partake the local food and local brew, such as Tuak, a wine made of fermented rice, which comes in a huge jar and is drunk through a bamboo reed directly from the jar.
Murut folklore
photograph above depicts the folklore of the man who turned into stone.The legend was told to him by the grandchildren of the man himself. the stone and the legend was shown in the Kalimaran festival, it would suggest that the story is well-known and widely accepted. The size of the stone was about the size of a soccer ball.



wear of murut...

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