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Iban war boat to be relocated to Borneo Cultures Museum this year
Sep 27, 2020
KUCHING (Sept 27): The Sarawak Museum Department will be relocating the Iban war boat to Borneo Cultures Museum within this year, said its director Tazudin Mohtar.
When met after the ‘miring’ ceremony conducted on the boat near Sarawak Islamic Museum here today, he said the artifact which was under the department’s care for 51 years will have to undergo cleaning works first before being relocated it to the museum’s fourth floor.
“There were three rituals done since Friday – the first one was done on the ‘kelerieng’ by the Punan Bah, the second was on the ‘kelidieng’ by the Melanaus, and today’s ‘miring’ ceremony on the war boat by the Ibans.
“We from the museum are the caretakers of Sarawak’s cultural heritage, that is why we have to follow the customs and beliefs of the local races.
“Also, our community likes to look at the many cultural materials placed in one area and displayed so that they can record memories or serve as creative inspiration,” he said
It was learnt that war boat originally belonged to a Malay by the name of ‘Ate’, which was later purchased by Tuai Rumah Anding Manja, together with nine other members of his longhouse at Gensurai, Layar.
In 1915, Anding received an official notification to participate in an expedition against the rebels at Bukit Salong on the upper Mujong in the Third Division in Sarawak.
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