Collection details
Collection ID MH2
Title Iban recordings
Description Iban recordings. Tapes Lodged by M Heppell
There are four sets of tapes lodged by M. Heppell based on three fieldwork experiences and one on occasional visits to different parts of Kalimantan:
1. Iban. I did fieldwork with the Iban from the end of 1971 to the beginning of 1974, basing the fieldwork in the headwaters of the upper Batang Ai. My focus was the Iban judicial process. Prior to going into the field, I spent about 3 months in Kuching going through all the old Brooke casebooks from which I extracted descriptions of behaviours which led to litigation. Prior to going into the field I used these descriptions to compile a questionnaire designed to understand the application of adat to contentious behaviour. The questionnaire is also on the file under Adat Questionnairelandscape. I interviewed various adat leaders during my period in the field and, over a two week intensive period, two in particular, Alek, a Balau leader living in a resettlement project at Melugu and Limbang, a Delok leader living in another resettlement project at Skim Skrang.
There are other tapes about various subjects.
2. Assem. The Assem are a Bidayuh group living in West Kalimantan in high country at the sources of the Kembayung River which runs in a westerly direction and drains into the Sambas river just below Sanggau Ledo and the Padé which runs in a south easterly direction and drains into the Landak river a few kilometres below Serimbu. The fieldwork was commissioned by the Australian government to determine the social impacts of a proposed hydro-electric dam which was never built. The fieldwork was short, lasting 3½ months from the end of 1981 to the beginning of 1982. The work was done in Assem and a dictionary (of sorts) compiled. Recordings were made of various meetings in the village of Tagoi, most specifically those relating to dispute settlement.
3. Bhuket. There are three small groups of Bhuket, one living at Long Ayak on the Balui River in Sarawak, a second just below Long Apari in the headwaters of the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan and a third in the upper reaches of the Kapuas River in West Kalimantan. The fieldwork was commissioned by the Sarawak government to assess the social impacts of a proposed dam at Bokun and lasted six weeks in 1988. As the period was so short and the Bhuket spoke Iban fluently, the fieldwork was conducted in Iban. The bulk of the tapes consist of enumeration of the Iban adat questionnaire to Bhuket adat, all of which by then had relevance as the Bhuket had become unsuccessful hill rice agriculturalists a generation or so ago. The remaining tapes consist of the telling of Bhuket oral sagas and other poetry.
4. The fourth set of tapes are in Bahasa Indonesia and relate to an interest in the material culture of Dayak groups. I made a number of very short visits to Borneo between 1990 and 2010 and took the opportunity to interview local Dayaks about aspects of their material culture based on photographs of objects that I had taken in museums and artefact shops.
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MH2
Collector
Michael Heppell
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DOI 10.4225/72/5abcff7b15664
Cite as Michael Heppell (collector), 1973. Iban recordings. Collection MH2 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Other Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/5abcff7b15664
Access information
Edit access Nick Thieberger
Jasmin Isobe
Ivan Kapitonov
Michael Heppell
Marco Espinoza
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Data access details Certain items/files have restricted access until 2037; see individual items for details.
Items in Collection (132)

Item Title Actions
001 Adat 1 ALEK 4 View
002 Adat 2 Limbang 14 View
003 Adat 3 ALEK ? View
004 Adat 4 Limbang 12 View
005 Adat 5 ALEK 15 View
006 Adat 6 Limbang Ligiang View
007 Adat 7 View
008 Adat 8 Limbang 8 View
009 Adat 9 Limbang 8 View
010 Adat 10 Limbang 20 View
011 Adat 11 Limbang 19 Ngali View
012 Adat 12 ALEK 8 MUNAU View
013 Adat 13 Runggah Ngali 5 View
014 Adat 14 Limbang 5 View
015 Adat 15 Alek 9 Limbang 9 View
016 Adat 16 Ngali 4 View
017 Adat 17 Limbang 1 View
018 Adat 18 Limbang 10 View
019 Adat 19 ALEK 6 View
020 Adat 20 Alex 1 Limbang 1 View
021 ALEK Final View
022 Adat 22 Alek 18 Limbang final View
023 Adat 23 Limbang 15 View
024 Adat 24 Limbang 9 View
025 ADAT 25 | ALEK 4 View
026 Adat 26 KANA on BIT View
027 Adat 27 | ALEK 3 View
028 Adat 28 ALEK 7 View
029 Adat 29 Limbang 7 View
030 Adat 30 Ngali 1 Bela – Yong View
031 Adat 31 Ngali 3 View
032 Adat 32 Mujap View
033 Adat 33 Limbang 14 View
033A Adat 33a Limbang 6 View
034 Adat 34/Limbang 4 View
034A Limbang 2 View
035 Adat – 35 MANAU View
036 Adat – 36 | Limbang 3 View
037 Adat 37 ALEK 5 View
039 Adat 39 ALEK 10 View
040 Adat 40 ALEK 2 View
041 Classical recordings View
042 Adat 42 Gerinang View
043 Adat 43 Runggah View
045 Adat 45 Limbang 13 View
045A Adat 45A/Limbang 15 View
046 Adat 46 Limbang 21 View
047 Adat -47 Guyang View
048 Adat – 48 Limbang 1 View
049 Adat 49 Enyan 1 View
050 Adat – 50 Enyan 2 View
050A Adat 50 Saribas View
051 Adat 51 | Enyan 2 View
052 Adat 52 View
053 Adat 53 | Saribas 2 | Saribas weaving View
054 Adat 54 | Mujap / Enyan 4 |Mujap / Enyan – carving View
055 Adat 55 Balai Indu View
056 Adat 56 Enyan View
057 Adat 57 Limbang View
058 Adat 58 Enyan 6 View
059 Adat 59 Limbang/Benga/Sumza View
060 Adat 60 Saribas 3 View
061 Adat 61 Enyan 7 View
062 Adat 62 Enyan 8 View
063 Adat 63 Enyan 9 View
AdatQuestionnaireLandscape Adat Questionnaire Landscape View
BECHARA1 Bechara 1 View
BECHARA2 BECHARA 2 Limput v NYAMBONG View
BENUA5 Cerita Patung & Kayu Adat View
B_ADAT10 Adat 10 View
B_ADAT11 Adat 11 View
B_ADAT12 Adat 12 View
B_ADAT13 Adat 13 View
B_ADAT14 Adat 14 View
B_ADAT15 Adat 15 View
B_ADAT2 Adat 2 View
B_ADAT3 Adat 3 View
B_ADAT4 Adat 4 View
B_ADAT5 Adat 5 View
B_ADAT6 Adat 6 View
B_ADAT7 Adat 7 View
B_ADAT8 Adat 8 View
B_ADAT9 Adat 9 View

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