TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert Menua Saleh.
TI  - Sabak
T2  - Tun Jugah Foundation publication series
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Kuching
PB  - Tun Jugah Foundation
KW  - Folk literature, Iban
KW  - Iban (Borneon people)
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Sarawak
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Iban poetry
KW  - Folk poetry, Iban
N1  - '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
ER  -