Visited Tenom museum 30th May 2019
There was a small museum in town, next to Hotel Orchid. The museum opens everyday from 9am to 5pm including weekends and public holidays. Free entrance. It was indeed very small, not much on display but good enough to look at the history, which i, myself, a Sabahan didn't even know. If we go to the museum to search for history, the facts were interesting.
Especially when i needed
to know more about the Murut tribe. There was a statue of the Warrior Antanom on front of the museum before, but was removed for upgrading.
Free Entrance to Tenom Museum
The town, was officially named by the British MCM Weedon in 1900. The railway was used as a means of transportation for rubber and tobacco to Jesselton(now Kota Kinabalu) wharf for export. Tenom has a history of a warrior by the name of Ontoros Antanom also known as Antanom or Antanum (1885-1915) who rebelled against the British . He came from Rundum in the Kemabong area. The story has been passed on from generations to generations, by village folks about him being a warrior, with supernatural powers. He fought against the British North Borneo Company, for protecting his people and sacred dignity of his homeland but was killed in 1915, during the fight at Sungei Selangi near Pensiangan. His son, Ontoros, had many desecendants all over tenom and keningau.
Desecendant of the Ontoros ...related to the Antanom clan
"Sanglang" for the Murut Wedding ceremony
"Saluiyas" jar - used to brew local wine and for a bride price, among the Muruts in Tenom, This 83 cm jar, came from China in the 19th Century.
Picture of oldTenom town in 1950's
Murut tribes
Chart showing the population in 2006 in Tenom
Priestess in Tenom holding human head 🤢😱😱 .....
Blow Pipe for hunting and a Murut Chief
The'Parang Ilang' was used by the Murut warrior as self defence and to cut off enemy's heads
In the past, the Muruts were most feared for their head hunting practices. The belief of this tribe was, the collections of enemies' heads to protect their village from enemies. The head also could help a Murut man to choose a bride, by presenting a minimal of one head to her family .
When I was a little girl, i was petrified of such stories and we were told that if we walked in the jungle, we had to sing or talk aloud because the head hunters won't fancy noisy soul from the dead. 😂
A Murut hunter holding a human head, from another tribe, in the 1960's
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Handicraft by the Murut tribe
Click or link here to watch a short U-tube video of a Murut Cultural Bamboo Dance in Blindfold.
I took this video when I was in the Imago Shopping mall in March 2019. I was amazed by these two young Murut dancers performing this skillfully bamboo dance to
perfection.
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