Kelabit people

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The Kelabit people are an indigenous Dayak ethnic group of the highlands of northern Borneo, primarily in Sarawak, Malaysia, known for their upland rice cultivation, megalithic culture, and longhouse communities.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kelabit people canonical 9
Kelabit 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dayak people
ethnic group
continent Asia
country Malaysia
countryOfDiaspora Australia
Brunei
linked to: Brunei Darussalam

Indonesia
Singapore
United Kingdom
culturalHeritage burial mounds
stone megaliths
stone monuments
culturalPractice megalithic culture
ethnographicRegion interior Sarawak
formerReligion animism
language Kelabit language
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Apad Uat subgroup
North Bornean languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
locatedIn Borneo
Sarawak
northern Borneo
notableSettlement Bario
Pa' Dalih
Pa' Lungan
notableValley Bario Valley
populationConcentration rural highland communities
populationSize small population
region Kelabit Highlands
linked to: Kelabit
regionType highland people
relatedEthnicGroup Kayan people
Kenyah people
Lun Bawang people
Penan people
linked to: Penan

Sa'ban people
religion Christianity
Protestantism
traditionalCraft basketry
beadwork
traditionalEconomy hunting and gathering
swidden agriculture
upland rice cultivation
wet paddy rice (recent adoption)
traditionalLeadership headman
traditionalMusic sape-related music traditions
traditionalReligion ancestor worship
traditionalSettlementType longhouse
traditionalSocialStructure longhouse-based community

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Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Murut people relatedEthnicGroup Kelabit people
Kenyah relatedEthnicGroup Kelabit people
Baram River hasIndigenousGroupInBasin Kelabit people
Baram River hasCulturalSignificanceFor Kelabit people
Kenyah people relatedEthnicGroup Kelabit people
Lundayeh people relatedEthnicGroup Kelabit people
Lun Bawang people relatedEthnicGroup Kelabit people
Kelabit language spokenBy Kelabit people
Kelabit language ethnicGroup Kelabit
linked to: Kelabit people