Betang
House is a typical traditional house of a Dayak home. Distinctive home betang form
elongated stage. Long House betang could
reach 30 to 150 meters and a width of 10 to 30
meters, the height of the pillars of his 3-5
meters. Building materials are used to
high berkaulitas i.e. ulin wood, in addition to
having the power that can stand up to hundreds of
years, this wood is also anti termite. In part of this betang House is
divided into several rooms that are occupied by each
family. In particular, creation
of dayak home we must part betang line
with sunrise and sunset tohilirnya side, as a symbol
of hard work to survive start of Sun to
grow and go home in the sun goes out.
House shape
is elongated betang and there is a
staircase and entrance into betang.Stairs as a means
of liaison on betang named hejot. Home high in
the wake of betang ground to avoid enemy that
comes with sudden, wild animals, sometimes flooding struck. The
House can meet betang riverbank existed in
kalimantan.
On the
front page of the
House usually betang Hall as a guest or
as a customary meeting place. The front page also
contains sapundu. Sapundu is
a sculpture or a totem in
general human-shaped carvings. Sapundu has a
function as a place for tying animals will be
sacrificed for ceremonial processions. Sometimes there
is also patahuin the courtyard that serves as the home
of betang cult.
On
the back of betang can be
found a smaller Hall called tukau used as warehousesfor
storing farming tools, such as
the lisung or halu. On a place
of betang used as storage of the weapon, where
it is commonly called bawong. On the front or the backthere
is also usually betang beef. Beef is a storage
of the bones of the deceased's family after passing
the tiwah ceremony.
Based
on Dayak belief there
is special provision in the
laying space at Home Betangnamely:
Center
or axis of buildings where people
gather do 30 activities be it religious, social
and community activities and
other then space los, should be in the middle of
the building.
Beds, space must
be arranged in rows sepanjangbangunan Betang. The
placement of the child's bedroom of the
old danorang there is a specific
provision which ruangtidur parents should be most tip
of darialiran River and the harusberada youngest
child sleeping on the downstream flow of the
river most tip, jadiruang sleeping parents and the
youngest not bolehdiapit and
if it breached will mendapatpetaka for thehousehold.
Part of
the kitchen should be facing the flow of the River, according
to a myth so that got sustenance.
Ladder. Indoor staircase custom
homes should begrjumlah Betang odd numbered 3,
but generally that is located at the tip of the left and
right, another one in the futureas a marker or ungakapan sense
of solidariras according to the mitostergantung size of
the home, the larger the size of the House the
more stairs.
Pante is
the floor place the rice, drying clothes, to hold
a traditional ceremony. His position is in front
of the exterior roof yeng projected outward. The
floor of a bamboo material pante, parts
of stem wood circle of pinang, wrist
or stem from the Board.
The
porch is the entrance to the House after passing
the corresponding pante number by the number of the
head of the family. On the front porch when there are ceremonies
such as signs mounted hometown a bamboo whose skin resembles finely diarut
fringes of the segments for the sake of appearance.
Sami functioned as
a place of living area organizes
activities requiring citizens.
Jungkar. Unlike
the ROAR that in general there should be. While Jungkar as additional
space in the back of the booth family each
that connect the roof the roof is long or there are
times when the roof pillar stands on its own but is still
a part of the long House. Jungkar placed on the stairs into
or out of a family, so as not to disturb guests who are on a
trip. Jungkar a roof connecting on the roof of
his long tingaatn (vents on the roof that
opens with a sustained/wood report) that when rain or
night can be closed again.
Betang home left
on the Dayak community is an example
of traditional cultural life that is able to
survive and adapt to the environment. The
Dayak community has an instinct to always live
together side by side with nature and other
community residents. They love to live
peacefully in a harmonious community so trying
to keep afloat with the pattern of home
life betang. This expectation is supported by the
awareness of each individual to align his
interests with a common interest. Such awareness is
based by nature mind religio-magical, that assumes
that every citizen has a value andposition as
well as the same right to life within the
community. Betang House settlement patterns closely related
to food sources provided by the surrounding nature, such
as land for tillage, stream that many fish,
and forests populated game. However,
the dependence on nature gradually have started
to diminish. The Dayak community has begun
to recognize the plantations and farms. Betang House described
the familiarity of the relationships in the family and
in society.
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