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Bahau

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[buh-hou] / bəˈhaʊ /

noun

  • Bahaus,
    plural
  • Bahau
    plural
  1. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of central and eastern Borneo.


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A worker unloads palm oil fruit bunches from a lorry inside a palm oil mill in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia January 30, 2019.

From Reuters May 10, 2022

The Bahau, too, is inhabited only at its source, and both rivers pass through wild, picturesque regions.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz

The blood is the more precious part, which the Bahau of the Mahakam, and other tribes, offer plain as well as mixed with uncooked rice.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz

It extends from the Bahau river in the north to the Mahakam in the south.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

Most of the Lepo are on the Bahau.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz

Among the Indonesian peoples who thus personify the rice we may take the Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo as typical.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

According to Nieuwenhuis the Bahaus and Kenyahs both remember that they came from Apo Kayan at the headwaters of the Kayan river; they were formerly known as the Pari tribes.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

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