Bilum: A Cultural Object of the Pagan Melanau

• Main Authors: Yakup Mohd. Rafee, Mohd. Rafee, Awangko Hamdan, Awang Arshad, Hishamuddin, Siri, Abdul Riezal, Dim, Mohd. Jefri, Samaroon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Medwell Publishing 2017
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); NX Arts in general
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19828/1/Bilum%20%3B%20A%20Cultural%20Object%20of%20the%20Pagan%20Melanau%20%28abstrak%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19828/; http://medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=jeasci.2017.6968.6973
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Bilum is among the endangered cultural objects and is used as a healing tool by the Pagan Melanau community, especially in Mukah and Dalat, Sarawak. Yet despite its central role in the community only relatively recently that researchers started taking serious notice of it with studies dating back to...