Watching this made me remember when I travelled to Borneo in 1993 because that's when I first heard about deforestation on the tv and I wanted to see it for myself. I hitch-hiked over the mountains on the back of logging company utes and up the Rajang river to a remote Jungle school. There were no concrete long houses but the river was already silted and the destruction of the land and the spirit of the people involved in the industry was already evident. It shocks me to think this is still going on at an accelerated rate. What will it take to stop? I hope these indigenous tattooists can some how revive the culture and educate the new generation to unite and stand up to protect their homes.
Greeting from Singapore, my parents originally from Sri Aman (mom) and Kanowit (dad) Sarawak. I was born in Sabah (tawau) called as Iban Sabah and now bejalai (migrated) to Singapore for more than 10 years. Always travelling every years visiting family and relatives in Borneo Island. I am proud to be Iban and i am against deforestation in Borneo Island. 💪
If anyone interest to know more about how iban in Sabah lives their life, please visit us or go to our FB page at 'Iban Sabah Page' for more informations. 😉
I I have just come across this amazing video and I take my hat off to you for documenting this. I love the beautiful people I saw and the awesome tattoos they wear and I real hope the revival lives on. Thank you for also documenting mans quest for money, it was sad to see the loss of the rain forest and the animal that rest within.. Religion has no place there and I hope it gets kicked out. Would love to get a tattoo by you. Blessing to the people of Borneo and to you..
So I was in Sarawak last summer, we literally had the same driver through his mutual friend Sampson. They took us to a valley where we then treked 8 hours to a village. I still have the hand tapped tattoos today from the village and they mean the world to me.
Thank you for great documentary! I'm pure iban but stay at peninsular Malaysia for most of my time. But when holiday i back to Borneo especially when gawai. I will get iban tattoo for sure when i get back to my hometown at sarawak in the future. I will start with bungai terong. Proud of my own cultures.
Utai nama translator bkenyak. Hurmm. Dini menua akik nyak bak minit 17:30 laban aku ka ngagak pantang ari urang lama. Respect ku urang tuai nyak. Nyak meh permata kitai. Respect ku nggau d nyak akik.
I am from Borneo be side part of indonesia we have diffrent style tatto from suku dayak because we have lot suku dayak in kalimantan from west to east welcome to visit kalimantan
There is no protection, we can't do nothing. Our goverment is greedy as shit. They have gun, we have gun too but they have money and bring their tank. We can't fight a tank. RIP Borneo jungle. Glad that I got my Iban tribe tattoo before it vanished. I'm pure Iban from batang lemanak, good documentary you got here and thank you. :)
Music is by my friends band. The name is in the info section under the video. Thanks for watching! I love Borneo! Check out @tattooanthropology on instagram for some of my pictures and tattoo history
There are specific reasons for making Iban tattoos called pantang or kalingai. The overall design of tattoo on respective body parts must be properly made by the tattoo experts and elders. This is so that for the tattoos to serve functional and aesthetic purposes namely to call for spiritual self-protection while on daily activities and major sojourns, to mark key events of history or achievements in one's life and to act as decorative accessories for the human body.
The translation is a bit off.. eg: in 13:34 what he actually said was “they thought the women wanna sleep with them” and thats why everyone was laughing and in 16:48 he said he is 98 years old and had tattoos since he’s 28 years old
Thank you. I think the translator recording could have gone out of time with the recordings a couple times making it hard to subtitle exactly. It was hard to edit because usually the whole village are just off camera and would be discussing the topic too when I was asking questions for interviews. It's so old now I don't have a way to edit it but I appreciate the translation and will be sure to get more help if I can do something like this again. It was an amazing experience with just myself and 1 camera person on low budget. Thanks for watching!
saya suku banjar tapi saya bersahabat dengan suku dayak, kami setanah borneo. ibarat adik dan kakak, yang tak kan terpisahkan. walau pun kami orang banjar sudah tak terlalu lagi dalam kehidupan adat nenek moyang. tapi kami tetap menghargai sanak saudara kami dari suku suku banjar dan dayak borneo.
And. Allllllllll of a sudden I felt beautiful . I am half Indonesian half Dutch . I’m pale but have allllll the indo traits but didn’t even realize . Strong jaw line . Big ass forehead that I’ve always tried to hide with bangs. I’m tattooed. And a self taught tattoo artist Certified micro pigmentation Artist . I’m the weird girl that loves the forest or anything outdoors or diy way to much . I have tools ⚒️ like many of them. I’ve always felt like I didn’t belong. Now I know where my roots really are. It’s making me cry a stupid happy ugly cry. I just did my makemanfuck
I'm a Sarawakian, a Dayak Bidayuh true blood from both parents. I'm not here to comment much about tattoo but being born as a Christian Dayak, I got myself tattooed during my teen years but after I've became a grown adult and I got deep into Christianity Theological doctrine, I would just like to add some details regarding tattoo in Christianity. In Christianity your body is the temple to the Holy Spirit and some tattoo from some culture have spiritual meaning and definitely clashed with that value, you know what I meant. Thai tattoo for example. And today actually many Christians have tattoo of course depicting Christianity. Christianity is not a religion, it's a personal spiritual realtionship of oneself with the Divine one so there's no such one template for all, but each have of their own special relation, if you can get what I mean. Tattoo wasn't just some kind of body fashion back then, to women yes but to men at certain matter it was not just for some chic swag, it does have spiritual meaning to it, not entirely in general term though. Regarding the issue of the land that being manipulated politically by greedy ruling elites they seems to have their opinions and info about right but not entirely correct. Today Dayak locals have successfully taken and fought back the land bit by bit. I'm talking not just about Sarawak region but Borneo Island as a whole. These artists are great in doing tattoo as art and that's it. They are entirely in their artistic world and rarely aware much about politics and other ideologies, but anyway thanks for a good documentary regarding part of the culture of our land and you seems to care a lot with great passion and honesty regarding our land issue. From the way you say it and that tone, you are a fighter just like us Dayak warriors, and another thank you for that. We rarely hear that from our local tattoo artists. Shalom and be blessed.
Guy Buddy the musicians are in the credits. They are a fantastic band. Highly recommended. When I made the film those tracks where pre release but you should be able to find them now. Thanks
That traditional tattooing of tribe in borneo is the same in the philippines . in the mountains of cordillera region specially in buscalan kalingga. Apo wang odd The last traditional tatoo artist in the philippines. The culture , practice and style of tatooing is very the same .
It is similar to us Nagas but the difference at the age of 15 we are send out to war to prove as a man some die is dead the victor is respected Long live Nagalim kuknalim ❤️
Even though there is a lot of Christian bashing I will say I believe in god,and yet I have both my legs covered in ink,and my god loves my ink and me .
its your neighbouring Kadazan from Sabah here hehe, i dont think our tattooing scene is as rich as sarawak's (or maybe i dont see much bcus im in a community with majority of religious ppl lmao) but i do know that we share the fattest butods/sago worms, only in borneo. Also kima to the greedy loggers
Great documentary. Christianity is complete bullshit and raping of the forest for rubbish food is heartbreaking. Keeping the tradition of the Iban is paramount.
Watching this made me remember when I travelled to Borneo in 1993 because that's when I first heard about deforestation on the tv and I wanted to see it for myself. I hitch-hiked over the mountains on the back of logging company utes and up the Rajang river to a remote Jungle school. There were no concrete long houses but the river was already silted and the destruction of the land and the spirit of the people involved in the industry was already evident. It shocks me to think this is still going on at an accelerated rate. What will it take to stop? I hope these indigenous tattooists can some how revive the culture and educate the new generation to unite and stand up to protect their homes.
Great documentary! Really love the old forms of tattooing 🌞
Greeting from Singapore, my parents originally from Sri Aman (mom) and Kanowit (dad) Sarawak. I was born in Sabah (tawau) called as Iban Sabah and now bejalai (migrated) to Singapore for more than 10 years. Always travelling every years visiting family and relatives in Borneo Island.
I am proud to be Iban and i am against deforestation in Borneo Island. 💪
If anyone interest to know more about how iban in Sabah lives their life, please visit us or go to our FB page at 'Iban Sabah Page' for more informations. 😉
Hello and thank you so much Fade FX for loving the arts and lifestyle of the native Borneo honestly, creatively.
--- Twin Karamoy Channel
Bravo! Loved hearing about the headhunting, his voice and storytelling is very soothing and informative!
Thank you for this great documentary.
i've been tattooing since 1991 & I LOVE what you're doing
I I have just come across this amazing video and I take my hat off to you for documenting this. I love the beautiful people I saw and the awesome tattoos they wear and I real hope the revival lives on. Thank you for also documenting mans quest for money, it was sad to see the loss of the rain forest and the animal that rest within.. Religion has no place there and I hope it gets kicked out. Would love to get a tattoo by you. Blessing to the people of Borneo and to you..
Interesting you say religion has no place there and then give blessings to everyone in the borneo. Me thinks me smells bullshit hunting for UpVotes
So I was in Sarawak last summer, we literally had the same driver through his mutual friend Sampson. They took us to a valley where we then treked 8 hours to a village. I still have the hand tapped tattoos today from the village and they mean the world to me.
Thank you for great documentary! I'm pure iban but stay at peninsular Malaysia for most of my time. But when holiday i back to Borneo especially when gawai. I will get iban tattoo for sure when i get back to my hometown at sarawak in the future. I will start with bungai terong. Proud of my own cultures.
Fade fx thanks for introducing Sarawak tatoo to whole world.
Utai nama translator bkenyak. Hurmm. Dini menua akik nyak bak minit 17:30 laban aku ka ngagak pantang ari urang lama. Respect ku urang tuai nyak. Nyak meh permata kitai. Respect ku nggau d nyak akik.
Finally got round to watching this Fade! Awesome film, I'm looking forward to next one! X
Hey fade..mybe you should visit borneo again..
I am from Borneo be side part of indonesia we have diffrent style tatto from suku dayak because we have lot suku dayak in kalimantan from west to east welcome to visit kalimantan
I am an iban tribe and my grandpa has full body traditional tattoo.btw I love this video
salam , waktu d sarawak pernah buat tatoo d studionya..cantik..
We Love iban Sarawak Malaysian from central Borneo Indonesian
Thank oh so much for putting information like this out there!
Really cool vid ..I love Sarawak
NICE ONE...The put something in the ink to allow me to see the spirits.... Good one...
There is no protection, we can't do nothing. Our goverment is greedy as shit. They have gun, we have gun too but they have money and bring their tank. We can't fight a tank. RIP Borneo jungle. Glad that I got my Iban tribe tattoo before it vanished. I'm pure Iban from batang lemanak, good documentary you got here and thank you. :)
Nice documentary, borneo is my hometown can you share the music background very nice song. Thankyou
Music is by my friends band. The name is in the info section under the video. Thanks for watching! I love Borneo! Check out @tattooanthropology on instagram for some of my pictures and tattoo history
@@fademeraki Thank you very much, feels like coming home when i hear music from At Adau
@@channelmasdoni they are cool guys! Our camera assistant is the sape player. His name is Ezra
Thank you! Yes music in the credits
Go to 29.34mins
this head skull is vantak name in west borneo
There are specific reasons for making Iban tattoos called pantang or kalingai. The overall design of tattoo on respective body parts must be properly made by the tattoo experts and elders. This is so that for the tattoos to serve functional and aesthetic purposes namely to call for spiritual self-protection while on daily activities and major sojourns, to mark key events of history or achievements in one's life and to act as decorative accessories for the human body.
This is good ,, i'm from borneo island
Thanks
The translation is a bit off.. eg: in 13:34 what he actually said was “they thought the women wanna sleep with them” and thats why everyone was laughing and in 16:48 he said he is 98 years old and had tattoos since he’s 28 years old
Thank you. I think the translator recording could have gone out of time with the recordings a couple times making it hard to subtitle exactly. It was hard to edit because usually the whole village are just off camera and would be discussing the topic too when I was asking questions for interviews. It's so old now I don't have a way to edit it but I appreciate the translation and will be sure to get more help if I can do something like this again. It was an amazing experience with just myself and 1 camera person on low budget. Thanks for watching!
The translation should be "they thought I was a woman and they wanna sleep with me"
loved it!!! very good work! respect =)
Thank you
These people live a good life cause even they are old age they still look a lot better than the one that live in the city....
6:40 -6:50 those were the Orang Ulu women. Most probably of Kayan or Kenyah tribe because of their long earlobes. I’m a Kayan by the way!
Thats iban lah..u see the bungai terung tatoo at men shoulder.. My grandpa n grandma also make their ear long ma..
@@stanlee8479 itu kayan kenyah lah bro
My grandma grandpa iban have long earlobe too.we still have their picture in the wall.
@@stanlee8479 look at the time stamp that I mentioned lol have u watched the whole vid?
saya suku banjar tapi saya bersahabat dengan suku dayak, kami setanah borneo. ibarat adik dan kakak, yang tak kan terpisahkan. walau pun kami orang banjar sudah tak terlalu lagi dalam kehidupan adat nenek moyang. tapi kami tetap menghargai sanak saudara kami dari suku suku banjar dan dayak borneo.
And. Allllllllll of a sudden I felt beautiful . I am half Indonesian half Dutch . I’m pale but have allllll the indo traits but didn’t even realize . Strong jaw line . Big ass forehead that I’ve always tried to hide with bangs. I’m tattooed. And a self taught tattoo artist Certified micro pigmentation Artist . I’m the weird girl that loves the forest or anything outdoors or diy way to much . I have tools ⚒️ like many of them. I’ve always felt like I didn’t belong. Now I know where my roots really are. It’s making me cry a stupid happy ugly cry. I just did my makemanfuck
This was an awesome documentary thank you for this !! It was beautifully done
Huge love. We're all connected ❤
I'm a Sarawakian, a Dayak Bidayuh true blood from both parents. I'm not here to comment much about tattoo but being born as a Christian Dayak, I got myself tattooed during my teen years but after I've became a grown adult and I got deep into Christianity Theological doctrine, I would just like to add some details regarding tattoo in Christianity. In Christianity your body is the temple to the Holy Spirit and some tattoo from some culture have spiritual meaning and definitely clashed with that value, you know what I meant. Thai tattoo for example. And today actually many Christians have tattoo of course depicting Christianity. Christianity is not a religion, it's a personal spiritual realtionship of oneself with the Divine one so there's no such one template for all, but each have of their own special relation, if you can get what I mean. Tattoo wasn't just some kind of body fashion back then, to women yes but to men at certain matter it was not just for some chic swag, it does have spiritual meaning to it, not entirely in general term though. Regarding the issue of the land that being manipulated politically by greedy ruling elites they seems to have their opinions and info about right but not entirely correct. Today Dayak locals have successfully taken and fought back the land bit by bit. I'm talking not just about Sarawak region but Borneo Island as a whole. These artists are great in doing tattoo as art and that's it. They are entirely in their artistic world and rarely aware much about politics and other ideologies, but anyway thanks for a good documentary regarding part of the culture of our land and you seems to care a lot with great passion and honesty regarding our land issue. From the way you say it and that tone, you are a fighter just like us Dayak warriors, and another thank you for that. We rarely hear that from our local tattoo artists. Shalom and be blessed.
Great video! also, I really liked the song at the end. Is there anywhere I can listen to that?
Guy Buddy the musicians are in the credits. They are a fantastic band. Highly recommended. When I made the film those tracks where pre release but you should be able to find them now. Thanks
Cool ! thanks a lot !
Beautiful 😊
i hate deforest in my village , thanks for this video i really miss my village at borneo 🙂
very good
when to visit mentawai?
mentawai also has a tatto😍
That traditional tattooing of tribe in borneo is the same in the philippines . in the mountains of cordillera region specially in buscalan kalingga. Apo wang odd The last traditional tatoo artist in the philippines. The culture , practice and style of tatooing is very the same .
The translations are way off. Please do not insert your own opinion in the translation. It will cause confusion
Borneo big island 3~word
Same as Igorots (Baguio ph) head hunters... But different tattoo...
It is similar to us Nagas but the difference at the age of 15 we are send out to war to prove as a man some die is dead the victor is respected Long live Nagalim kuknalim ❤️
Even though there is a lot of Christian bashing I will say I believe in god,and yet I have both my legs covered in ink,and my god loves my ink and me .
Salam kenal SAYA ASLI SUKU DAYAK KALIMANTAN BARAT
Sengapa uduk ktk ngaga translation nyk
Cool!
So depressing how we ate destroying our earth
We destroy everything for twinkies
pliss subtitle 🙏🇮🇩
its your neighbouring Kadazan from Sabah here hehe, i dont think our tattooing scene is as rich as sarawak's (or maybe i dont see much bcus im in a community with majority of religious ppl lmao) but i do know that we share the fattest butods/sago worms, only in borneo. Also kima to the greedy loggers
💚🙏🏽
Tutuh Nyak' Tiop Akal Nyak' Midop
just want to 1 thing.. you are beautiful ;)
Indonesian culture, yeaah 🤙🏻
Dayak tattoo for god
Great documentary. Christianity is complete bullshit and raping of the forest for rubbish food is heartbreaking. Keeping the tradition of the Iban is paramount.
It's sad dude but the religion you talking about is not Christian. Trust me if there is not missionaries around, Borneo rainforest would be gone
Borneo or kalimantan is Indonesia, the tribe is Dayak
Well, technically Borneo both belong in Indonesia and Malaysia and there's probably lots of different smaller tribe in borneo
Dayak itu ada subsuku bang, kayak iban mentawai dll
Kalimantan is Indonesia ,but Borneo ,in Indonesia, Malaysia,and brunei
AGI IDUP AGI NGELABAN
butty full story
Kesini gegara calon sarjana 🙋
so many things i can see from tatoo culture and enviromental ruined by corpotarion
Kumbai urg indu ka dmput sida ea🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jaga hutan kami stop hancurkan hutan kami
Christian come from USA
Learn before you talk
@@jack8400 that is true
@@jack8400 i means come in borneo
@@Mukomaad-nabi-pheodopiliait's true that christian from usa?..lol