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We were walking along a trail when the 43-year-old forester stopped and slid a mandau, the machete-like knife carried by the Indigenous Dayak people, from a sheath at his waist.

From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024

The same is true of the Dayak fruit bat, which can only be found in southeast Asia's Sunda Shelf.

From Salon • May 28, 2022

His family has lived deep in the rainforest for eight generations, and the 62-year-old has been involved in multiple legal actions as the secretary general of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association, an Indigenous rights group.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Palmieri, a garrulous Californian now in his 70s, loves stuff, too, especially works of art made by the Dayak, the Penan and their forebears.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018

The man whose house I visited was rich, according to Dayak standard, not in money, but in certain wares that to him are of equal or greater value.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl