This is the "gong" or "bell" or "instrument" of the highland indigenous peoples (Penans, Kelabits, Kayans and Kenyahs".
A hollow tree is scouted for when a headman wishes to have one installed for a new village..some tubung in Sarawak are as old as 200 years old!! Tubung is a multi-tasking instrument - to call for meetings, to rise the people up to gather for emergencies or for defence (in the olden days), to gather for Church service...to wake up for morning prayers..(This one gives the wake up call at 5.30 and the pastor is the one who will beat the tubung for the village. This house belongs to the SIB church)
The elders would take time to look for the perfect hollowed tree to make a grand tubung (although some spell it tubung)....
Recently a new one was found for a special occasion.
This new tubung is now hanging in a new "astaka" in Bario for the Bario Food Festival 2011....
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seems like Kelabits are always looking at trees and growing them
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