Article: Iban prayer ritual, human skulls at court premises

Sulok Tawie
New Straits Times
12-05-2008
Iban prayer ritual, human skulls at court premises
Byline: Sulok Tawie
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

KUCHING: Native customary rights (NRC) landowners from an Iban longhouse in Bintulu Division came in full force for a case involving one of them and a plantation company at the High Court here yesterday.

However, it was the ritual aspect that attracted all the attention.
They arrived about 8am in two buses and cars, and began the miring (prayers for God's help and blessings) ritual in front of the court complex.

After the prayers were chanted, a man placed the piring (offerings) on the mat, next to six human skulls collected during the ...

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