We all know that Bajau people are good swimmers and hunters, besides that, they are also good craftsmen.
They have traditionally created ornaments made of shell and turtle shell, and embellished houses, boats, house furnishings, and grave markers with carved designs. |
Bow is crafted by hands of Bajau people using a knife. If you look carefully, there is a fish :)
This boat is sailed during the Regatta Lepa festival, a boating festival in sabah.
The Bajau women are well known for the weaving and needlework skills.
Bajau women weave several types of textiles. Embroidered panels were sewn into their long black wrap-skirt. The most important are kain mogah, long cloths of small, somewhat somber design, used mainly as trade cloth and for house hangings.This is called destar which is worn by men. It is woven mainly in rectangular design elements. This is also made up of kain mogah
Music and dance are richly elaborated.
Musical instruments include the kulintangan (an idiophone) and between seven and nine knobbed gongs suspended horizontally in a wooden frame. The kulintangan, providing the main melodic line, is played by women, together with suspended gongs and drums, the latter played by male musicians, either alone or in accompaniment to dance. 
The lowest-sounding gong is on the left and the highest sounding gong is on the right hand end of kulingtangan.
The gabbang (a wooden xylophone), normally of seventeen keys, is also played by women, either as a solo instrument or in accompaniment to singing and dancing.
Bajau have a unique type of dance called the Pangigal, it is common in wedding ceremonies.They will wear fake nails and the hands are moved around gracefully. This dance is most famously danced to the music Dayang-dayang. Male and female dancers exchange improvised verses of song.
Here is a link to dayan:g-dayang music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBw3NQ9jjfY
Thank you for reading :))
Ling Xin Yi
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