Sabak / ditusun : Robert Menua Saleh.
Series: Tun Jugah Foundation publication seriesPublication details: Kuching : Tun Jugah Foundation, 2000.Description: vi, 218 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s):| Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Materials specified | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| AM | PERPUSTAKAAN ALAM DAN TAMADUN MELAYU | PERPUSTAKAAN ALAM DAN TAMADUN MELAYU KOLEKSI AM-P. ALAM DAN TAMADUN MELAYU | PL5333.7.S234 8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00002023876 |
'This book contains full texts of major varieties of Iban dirge, Sabak Bangkai and Sabak Lumbung, commonly used in Kapit and Sibu Divisions of Sarawak. Sabak is a dirge written in classical Iban language. It is a poem of ament for the dead, narrating the journey of his/her soul from the land of the living and the dead called Sebayan. In this book, professional singers of the dirge will be taking the readers, together with the soul of the deceased, along the journey between these two worlds, passing by the various dwellings of forest and abodes of the sacred birds and animals, etc.'--Publisher's website.
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