Punan
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In 2002, a census of the Punan in eastern Borneo focused only on the villages, because so few nomads were thought to exist.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Kharis, a young member of the Punan Batu, played a guitar made of terap wood at a rock shelter in Sadau, Borneo.Credit...
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
The Punan people of the island of Borneo were once rumored to have tails, so elusive did they seem to their neighbors in the 19th century.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Over decades, the Indonesian government stripped the Punan of their ancestral lands and encouraged them, sometimes forcibly, to settle in ready-built villages.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Kohlbrugge and I included the Bakatan or Beketan and the Ukit or Bukat in the Punan group, and also bracketed together the Kayans and Kenyahs.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
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