23 Facts About Iban people

The Iban people population is concentrated in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, Brunei, and the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan.

Iban people language is spoken by the Iban people, a branch of the Dayak ethnic group formerly known as "Sea Dayak".

Iban people speak basically one language with regional dialects that vary in intonation.

Nowadays, the Iban people language is mostly taught at schools with Iban people students in town and rural areas in Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Iban people language is included in Malaysian public school examinations for Form 3 and Form 5 students.

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Iban people was said to be the "bridge between Malaya and East Malaysia".

The Iban people Dayak has their own year-long calendar with 12 consecutive months which are one month later than the Roman calendar.

Hundreds of years, the Iban people's ancestors practiced their own traditional custom and pagan religious system.

Since conversion to Christianity, some Iban people celebrate their ancestors' pagan festivals using Christian ways and the majority still observe Gawai Dayak, which is a generic celebration in nature unless a proper is held and thereby preserves their ancestors' culture and tradition.

Iban people will cook glutinous rice in bamboo containers or wrapped in leaves called 'daun long'.

Iban people call this skill — plaiting various items namely mats, baskets and hats.

Iban people make special baskets called for the dead during Gawai Antu with numerous feet to denote the rank and status of the deceased which indicates his ultimate achievement during his lifetime.

Iban people have their own hunting apparatus which includes making, and .

Some Iban people are in blacksmithing although steel is bought through contact with the outside world.

The Iban buy brass ware such as, and and from other people because they do not have brass-smithing skills.

The Iban people make their own to split the areca nut and to grind the split pieces of the areca nut.

Normally, the Iban people will continue to locate their farms upriver to open new virgin forests that are fertile and thus ensure a good yield.

Traditionally, Iban people agriculture was based on actual integrated indigenous farming system.

Once the Iban migrated into a riverine area, they will divide the area into three basic areas i e farming area, territorial domain and forest reserve .

Iban people attacked the Japanese force stationed at the Kapit fort at the end of the Second World War in 1945.

The Nyabor is the traditional Iban people Scimitar, Parang Ilang is common to Kayan and Kenyah Swordsmiths, pedang is a sword with a metallic handle and Duku is a multipurpose farm tool and machete of sorts.

Traditionally, Iban people agriculture was based on actual integrated indigenous farming system.

Iban people are famous for being fearsome warriors in the past in defence of homeland or for migration to virgin territories.