Dusun

Mt. Kinabalu has long been regarded as a sacred mountain by the native Dusun people of the foothills region.

Kinabalu Park, Malaysia 2008

_Dusun, _ agricultural villagers on the northern extremity of Borneo.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The Dusun, or villagers of the northern extremity of the island, are a race of which Mr. Brooke knows nothing personally; but the name implies that they are an agricultural people: they are represented as not being tattooed, as using the sumpitan, and as having a peculiar dialect.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

[32] The Dusun of Borneo have tales of talking jars.

A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore Fay-Cooper Cole 1921

A Murut or Dusun village usually consists of a single long hut divided into a great number of small rooms, one for each family -- a jungle apartment house, as it were.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

Among the Dusun the men that took heads generally had a tattoo mark for each one on the arm, and were looked upon as very brave, though their victim might have been only a woman or a child (159).

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Later in the day they reduced their demand to thirty florins for a pig to be used at the dancing, which proposition I also declined, the amount named being at least six times the value of the animal, but I was more fortunate in my dealings with the two male blians of the place, one of them a Dusun, and succeeded in inducing them to dance for me one forenoon.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

Malays engaged in gathering rattan, and, no doubt, also rubber, in these vast, otherwise uninhabited upper Dusun lands.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

Dusun baggage-carriers had not arrived, and the Bajows were called upon to make up the deficiency, but did not do so.

British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884

The first body identified as Jamilah bte Ramli, was a Dusun in her 40s, who died on Nov 19,

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