Sarawakian Traditional Costume
Orang Iban Costume

This is our traditional costume for the ladies. Nowadays, eventhough most of us already leave our longhouse and live in a city, we never miss to come back home during our festive season called Gawai Padi. The ladies’ costume consists of glass beads, silver and gold jewelleries and self made clothes consist of selampit and kain. For the hair, the ladies are wearing sugu tinggi which also made of silver and other type of accessories.

Orang Ulu Costume

includes the major Kayan (15,000) and

Kenyah tribes, the Kajang, Kejaman, Punan, Ukit, and Penan (10,000) tribes, and recently, the tribes of Lun Bawang, Lun Dayeh and Berawan and Kelabits highlanders (3,000). Collectively these different tribes make up about 5.5% of Sarawak’s population. The costumes of the Orang Ulu are as varied as the diversity of the tribes themselves. In general, beads and heavy silver or brass jewellery are used by the womenfolk as part of their traditional costume.