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Cultural Objectives of Harvest Festivals

Saturday, August 8, 2009

PAST Kaamatan (Harvest) Festivals in Sabah have met the essentials cultural objectives. However, the achievements of the intrinsic cultural objectives are an ongoing process. That is the very reason why it is important that the Kaamatan Festivals be celebrated every year at various levels.

Fruits Galore at Monsopiad Cultural Village

Friday, August 7, 2009

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Fruits Galore at Monsopiad Cultural Village

EVERY Thursday and Friday throughout August 2009, there is a special display of local fruit at the Monsopiad Cultural Village in Penampang, Sabah. There it was… a wide variety of local fruits on exhibition under a bamboo tent near the entrance and ready to be tasted by visitors on their way in or out.

Pre-nuptial Bond of a Kadazan / Dusun Couple

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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THE wedding of Willson Sadah, a Dusun originally from Kg. Pompod, in the Kelawat area of Kota Belud District, in Sabah, and Fanny Yeo, whose mother Nora Lajungah is a Kadazan from Kg. Kinuta in Papar District, in December 2008, presented an opportunity for Borneopedia.com to make a case study of tribal adat (customary law) [...]

Tangau: ‘Invite Cultural Elders To Officiate Kaamatan’

Monday, June 15, 2009

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Tangau: ‘Invite Cultural Elders To Officiate Kaamatan’

KOTA KINABALU – Datuk Wilfred Madius Tangau, chairman of the Sabah Cultural Board since 2003, has made a call for official programmes of the annual Pesta Kaamatan (Harvest Festival) celebrations to move forward by giving “cultural elders” the opportunity to disseminate information pertaining to the cultural heritage of the Dusuns and Kadazans.