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Good Things to Come For the second year in a row the after effects of Covid-19 have prevented many indigenous groups from embracing their festive seasons in a grand manner. We miss seeing the colourful native dresses and costumes worn by women with bright eyes and beaming smiles. We miss the aggressive undercurrent of energy radiating from the wardress-clad men, warriors armed with shield and blade. We miss it all and thus keep our fingers crossed that 2022 will not see a three-peat occur. Until then, all we can do is reminisce and dream of bygone festivals, and those yet to come.
5 THINGS WE MISS ABOUT KAAMANTAN (MAY 30-31): Gorgeous Unduk Ngadau Beauty Pageant contestants Mysterious Bobohizan Priestesses Montoku rice wine, aka ‘Sabahan Vodka’ The elegant avian swaying of the Sumazau Dance Exotic fare such as Hinava, Bambangan, and Butod
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