{"id":533,"date":"2020-08-10T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2020-08-10T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:33:14","slug":"ancient-head-hunting-swords-on-display-at-rumah-terbalik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Ancient head-hunting swords on display at Rumah Terbalik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alex (left) and Pediman showing one of the swords on display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

TUARAN: A\nvariety of head-hunting swords dating back to the 1800s are showcasing now at\nthe Ruang Rumah of the Rumah Terbalik & 3D Wonders Museum in conjunction\nwith the International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous Peoples 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition themed \u2018The Borneo Head-Hunting\u2019 started from July 8 till December 31, featured collections of 14 antique head-hunting swords that had been used for beheading enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition\nis held in collaboration among Rumah Terbalik, Muzium Lotud Borneo, Sabah\nMuseum and Sabah Archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muzium Lotud chief executive officer cum founder Pediman Jabau said the swords that they display are all authentic except for the skulls which are not. Those who are curious to see the real skulls can go to the Sabah Museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe swords we\nsee here belonged to the ethnic tribes of Dayak, Lotud, Iban, Murut and Rungus\nwhich are the indigenous people of Borneo. The collections are more than 250\nyears old,\u201d Pediman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will be intriguing\nfor the visitors to get a closer look at all the swords as some of them are dotted\nor with markings to indicate the number of heads that has been beheaded by the\nsword\u2019s owner during the ancient time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also featured are several Japanese swords used by the Japanese imperial soldiers during the Second World War in Sabah. The different design of the swords indicated the rank of the officers, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to\nPediman, all the swords which was once used by the warriors to behead their\nenemies has since been \u2018harmonised\u2019 through an appeasing ritual ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumah Terbalik\nowner Alexander Yee said they collaborated to organise the latest exhibition as\nboth of them are members of the United Tuaran Tourism Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is my contribution to promote the culture of the Lotud Museum in the Ruang Rumah since I have an exhibition space here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFurthermore,\nthis is also inline with our activities of within a year we rotate two exhibits\nfor public consumption after we have done the Christmas exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was supposed to be held early this year but postponed to this month after the easing of the movement control order, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd the idea\nis for the people who have seen the exhibitions and if they want to see more,\nwe will divert them to the Lotud Museum,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors who purchased the tickets for the Rumah Terbalik will only need to add-on RM3 if they want to enter the Ruang Rumah, and RM5 for those only interested to see the exhibition.-HS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TUARAN: A variety of head-hunting swords dating back to the 1800s are showcasing now at the Ruang Rumah of the Rumah Terbalik & 3D Wonders Museum in conjunction with the International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous Peoples 2020. The exhibition themed \u2018The Borneo Head-Hunting\u2019 started from July 8 till December 31, featured collections of 14…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}