-  A “short” long house.  This is a 4-doors Bidayuh long house.  A real longer longhouse can be as many as 80 doors or even more.

When we reached Bidayuh house, there was no one showing us around.  There were two ladies having their lunch nearby.  We walked around and took a lot of photos.  After one of the ladies finished her lunch, she started telling us about Bidayuh long house.

I told myself,  next time we should choose a good time to visit SCV (Sarawak Cultural Village).  If there is only a few people, they are not going to play any of their traditional musical instruments.  We experienced it because not long after we left Iban’s house and go to Orang Ulu’s house, they started playing music.  We were not sure whether the music is from Iban’s house or Bidayuh house, but we were sure that we missed to see them playing the music.

Traditional Bidayuh costume for rent.  There are all colourful.

Bidayuh also know as “Land Dayak”.  The name “Bidayuh” means ‘inhabitants of land’.

Bidayuh’s Gong.

The Shields were decorated with drawings.

Their weapons.

A collection of woods used for lighting up fire.

A big bunch of shell.

-  A the back of the longhouse, there is a small corridor.

The design of the house is very simple.  There is a big commonly shared corridor in from of each doors where the inner part is shaded but not the outter part.   And there is a big room space inside each door where Bidayuhs do their cooking, and other daily activities.  At the back of the house, there would be a small corridor as shown on photo above.

This is outsides of the room where they have a commonly shared shaded area.

We don’t know what are these items called.  If you know please let us know.

We guess these are the things used to catch fish or birds.  Are we right?

Rice processing device #1.

Rice processing device #2.

Common cooking area.

We have forgotten what is this device used for.  There were too many things to learn, and we can’t remember all.

We arrived SCV at about 1:30pm, and until 5pm, we still haven’t finished visited all the houses.  As I told you, I took a lot of photos until my 8GB memory cards full.  The main reason it became full was because I took photos in bracketing mode which reduce the capacity to only one third.

More photos on Bidayuh Baruk in the next post.