Looking for the Tambok: Some Ethnographic Notes on Contemporary Bidayuh Basketry.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Looking for the Tambok: Some Ethnographic Notes on Contemporary Bidayuh Basketry. |
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Author :
Liana Chua |
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Abstract:
The average visitor to the souvenir shopslining the Main Bazaar in Kuching, Sarawak is apt to encounter what is frequently described as a ‘Bidayuh tambok’: a small, finely woven rattan basket distinguished from others of its ilk by its vertical twilP. In Sarawak’s self-consciously multi-ethnic milieu, this is the emblematic Bidayuh basket: a cultural feature which, like the balai or ‘head-house’2, recognisably differentiates it from other indigenous groups (Chin, 1980: 70-71; Munan, 1989: 44).
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Liana Chua. (2006). Looking for the Tambok: Some Ethnographic Notes on Contemporary Bidayuh Basketry. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXII (83): 1-32 |
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