Kayan people - Kayan (English spelling)

Japanese: カヤン族 - カヤンぞく（英語表記）Kayan

Indigenous people of Borneo. They share a cultural similarity with the neighboring Kenyah people, and in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, they are considered one group and are also called the Bahau people. The population is estimated at about 27,000. They live in the middle reaches of the Kayan, Mahakam, and Kapuas rivers, and practice slash-and-burn agriculture. Their staple food is rice. A few to several dozen families live together, and a village is made up of several longhouses. Kinship is bilateral. Each village is led by a hereditary chief and nobles, and there is a clear social hierarchy, with a commoner class and a slave class. In their traditional religion, they worship a supreme god, and bird divination and divination using pig liver are important in daily life. They also have a strong faith in shamans called dayongs, and agricultural rituals are also popular. They excel in ironsmithing, and have music that mainly uses stringed instruments and sophisticated patterns.

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Japanese:

ボルネオ島の先住民。隣住するクニャー族 Kenyahと文化的類似性をもつことから，インドネシア領東カリマンタンでは両者を一つのグループとみなしてバハウ族 Bahauともいう。人口は推定で約2万 7000。カヤン川，マハカム川，カプアス川などの中流部に分布し，焼畑農耕を行い，米を主食とする。数家族から数十家族が共同で生活し，いくつかのロングハウスが村を構成する。親族関係は双系的である。世襲の首長および貴族によって各村は統率され，平民層と奴隷層が存在するなど，明確な社会階層がみられる。伝統的宗教では最高神を崇拝し，鳥占いや豚の肝臓による占いが日常生活で重要である。またダヨン dayongといわれるシャーマンの信仰が強く，農耕儀礼も盛ん。鉄鍛冶の技術にすぐれ，弦楽器を主として用いる音楽や洗練された紋様をもつ。

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