Kaamatan KDCAKV 2007: Dancers
The dancers from Sabah Cultural Board, taking a short rest during the KDCAKV Kaamatan celebration in KL.
The dancers from Sabah Cultural Board, taking a short rest during the KDCAKV Kaamatan celebration in KL.
One of the traditional sports event is mipansa (finger wrestling); here two participants are set to mipansa.
Back in our hometown in Sabah, Kaamatan celebration includes traditional sports such as buffalo race (milumba karabau), arm wrestling (mipulos), knuckle and finger wrestling (mipansa), wrestling (migogol), blow pipe shooting (monopuk), stilts race (mamarampanau), tug
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The highlight of the celebration is the crowning of 2007 KDCAKV Unduk Ngadau, Miss Jaycintha (spelling?) Kaur of Penampang.
THE LEGEND OF HUMINODUN
The Unduk Ngadau of Kaamatan Beauty Queen
"Unduk Ngadau" owes its origin from that part of Kadazandusun genesis story, which pertains to sacrifice of "Huminodun" - Kinoingan's only begotten daughter. The legend went on to
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Dr Max Ongkili with a special song called RUMANDAWI.
This is the magunatip dance - one of the exciting dance during the KDCAKV Kaamatan 2007. Magunatip is an East Malaysian dance that is typically performed by the young men and women of the Kadazandusun (Kwijau) community and the Muruts in Keningau, Sabah.
The dance involves jumping steps and the dance is a display of the skill of
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The Sumazau dance can be considered the state dance of Sabah. The arm gestures are likened to that of a bird and it floats gracefully at approximately shoulder level with gentle bending of the elbow and wrist or alternatively is swung gently like a pendulum, parallel at the sides of the body.
The costumes are authentically
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