KenyahBadeng2020

PART 3:  THE POWER OF THE SPEARHEADED BLOWPIPE This image used for decorative purposes only Sarawak: a Kenyah native tying a spearhead to a blowpipe Credit:  Wellcome Collection .  Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) This image used for decorative purposes only A native Kenyah hunter with blowpipe and dead animal. Credit:  Wellcome Collection .  Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ~AKEN BALI KARING~             “Oi.. yu banuk, nai mik kelo koman ji. Uking ji batek tiling tawan edo dio kelangan kelo koman adam kelonan le mik di” dau Bali Kelapit mipa iya. “ja..petira’ tepat oo toyang. Dalem omak mading melan kena tepat ke nasak kelonan. Ikem pat pe kelo koman, ake pe kelo koman” dau Bali Karing kida pat bane. “Ja.. ya tepat ke pekeno’ ading idang pado’ batu tosan, obane mencat kayat payang boan tepat pegita batong osa yung inan le keji. Ya tepat ke pekeno tawai oyan. Oban...

Bali Kelapit Drawing: Cheout ~ PELEGAING WAN'S MESSAGE ~              Ja dau kenai Laing Madang bada’ me kelonan kentak lengan labo ojan ne bane. “Oi.. koda nem nengayet keriut deyan ke muko’ nyekalong ujo jangkang talan, muko’ dalem telo’ belat iman ading, ya ik ketai pita bali morat masi kawang diman, bali lapa tiga lalau balan ading. Lesau lik ikem ketai salai kuun Bali Kelapit jaat ngan di” meka dau Laing Madang me kelonan. “Oi.. kumin isik le keja eto?”.              Laing Madang went down to the humans and he delivered the message from Amai Pelegaing Wan. “All humans, I beg you. Can you please listen to me once? Please stay at home for eight days as I am going to find the great Bali Nyingan Lalau Balan. I don’t want to see you perish because of the disease caused by Bali Kelapit.” said Laing Madang to the humans.           ...

            Un dau ca sereta cin kena awang diman. Cin tading tising udip dipan te. Sereta Bali Kelapit jaat ngan, Bali Kelapit nipo kulit du limo man, cin tading awang diman dalau udip du ke Alo Iwan te.            Once upon a time, there was a story about the wicked Bali Kelapit.   Kelapit is a very dangerous disease that affects the human skin during the early period that the Kenyah Badeng people lived in Alo Iwan . This disease almost caused the Kenyah Badeng people to come to the point of extinction. ~ LAING MADANG ~           Un dau peniga bali du dalau ja te jane Laing Madang Kawang Bareng Soran, peniga Bali Enting Siding Sinan, ja je tosa anit berua kalong maan kentak lengan labo ojan, sio’ sakit Bali Kelapit jaat ngan. “Oi.kumin kumin ne sik le ke payen tain? Bali Kelapit jaat ngan tai nasak bolan omak mading melan, nasak osa iung inan berua kalong maan kentak mata tau denta...