Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

Mongabay
Mar 20, 2018, 4:20 am135 pts
LONG LAMAI, Malaysia — The tallest tajem trees have slash marks clear up to the canopy. Each diagonal cut released some of the tree’s heart-stopping sap to tip someone’s darts, making him a more lethal hunter in the forests of Sarawak. The people of the Penan village of Long Lamai talk about the tajem…

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