Sarawak Ethnic Music

Iban people are also talented musicians and dancers. During the main festivals of Gawai Dayak (Harvest), Gawai Kenyalang (Hornbill) and Gawai Antu (Festival of the Dead), the people will bring out their traditional instruments and celebrate but playing and dancing. Some of the Iban dances such as ngajat are pretty amazing when you see them live. The Ibans perform a unique dance called the ngajat. This type of dance is the most popular in Sarawak and Borneo island itself. There are many types of dances, including; • Ngajat Induk • Ngajat Bebunoh • Ngajat Lesong • Ngajat Semain • Ngajat Berayah • Ngajat Ngemai Antu Pala For the Iban people, ngajat is the dance to celebrate the Gawai festival, as well as celebrating the war victory.

Dancers will wear traditional clothing such as ‘mesh’, ‘gagung’ or dress the bird. They also wore hats decorated with bird feathers. Gagung is a bold and loud clothes made from animal skin like leather bears, but not sewn up the left and right.Each rhythm is played in accordance with the ritual. For Ari Gawai Sandau, Rayah drums played for the guest of honor and celebrate Gawai to ber’Rayah’ while carrying the skull of an enemy.

Another type of dance is that dancers will hold a wooden shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand and danced like a face with the enemy by swinging his body to the left and right. Accompaniment of the song sounded like devices large and small gongs, drums, tawak, bebendai,engkurumong and sape, a stringed instrument like a guitar. Both Iban men and women enjoy styles of ngajat is a dance which involves a lot of precise body turning movements. The ngajat which men usually perform is aggressive and depicts a man going to war, or a bird flying (as a respect to the Iban god of war, Burung Kenyalang or Hornbill bird). Buku Tik Sd Kelas 4. The ngajat which women perform is of soft, graceful movements with very precise body turns.

Burning Spear Man In The Hills Rar here. Each ngajat is accompanied by the taboh or the body. In general, better known as the Ngajat but many do not recognize the pattern or type of music in this. Snow White Platinum Edition Blu Ray. Engkerurai is one of the types of musical instruments rarely seen at this point, both in public performances or displayed in print materials. Its existence also seems not widely known.