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Introduction and history
The Liwan Dusun tribe mostly reside in Tambunan District. The women are synonymous with adorning the Sinombiaka traditional costume, believed appeared around the 19th century or before. The relationship that resulted from the interior tribe and from the coast has created in the combination and innovation of this attire.
Sinombiaka is divided into two types of attire that each has its own uniqueness, that is the Sinombiaka Pinolongon and Sinombiaka Rombituon.
Sinombiaka Pinolongon has an outer clothing like a jacket or long-sleeved blouse as prevention from the hot weather. Sinombiaka Rombituan is more portraying its star embroidery found on the attire, often modelled during the Unduk Ngadau beauty pageant in May every year.
It is safe to say that Sinombiaka is a formal attire yester years. It is made up of a number of parts and decorative accessories that are Sinombiaka, Gonob/Tapi, Tingot, Sunduk/Kulu, Botungkat/Limpogot, Golong and Tangkong/Sinsing.
Sinombiaka uses weaved material from their ancestors’ ideas. The woven design or motif of decoration is according to the weaver’s creativity. Normally inspired from the environment’s beauty and the tribe’s cultural uniqueness that become the inspiration of the weaver and now becoming a heritage.
The custom of adorning Sinombiaka can be seen during traditional ceremonies like wedding. Normally, it is worn by the bride during the monggooi panau ceremony in which an entourage invites the bride to the groom’s house, and the miohon do pinisi custom of exchanging fistful of rice. Both rituals are signified with songs of traditional poems called tondiadi during the monggooi panau and recital of rinait or mantras during the miohon pinisi.
At the waist is Tingot, a white cloth that acts as belt for the Gonob/Tapi, covering the abdomen to prevent from illness associated with the wind’s effect. Gonob/Tapi is a long skirt to cover the feet.
Other accessory at the waist is Limpogot or Botungkat, a belt of coins. Sinombika and Gonob also have decorations like Tangkong or Sinsing, made up of copper of small ring-like coils at the hip. The Tangkong of the Tambunan District is different from the Tangkong of the Penampang District in terms of motif and measurement.
This costume is completed with the Golong accessory that is gold or silver bracelet worn on both forearms.
On the head is Sunduk or Kulu to cover the head, embroidered with thread and at its end normally is found small bells called Giring-giring. The Bobolian priestesses that wear Sunduk for the Bomolian religious ritual are often associated with the Giring-giring.
There are five different stitches to sew the Sinombiaka. Among them are Kinarawing, Nonggom Kara, Nandalang, Tinuku and Nontob Lapik in the local dialect.
The thread colours found in yester years were only basics like orange, red, green and yellow to make embroideries for this costume. Nowadays, with sophisticated facilities thread can be produced mechanically and using chemical that resulted in a variety of threads with its quality and values still maintained. The costume’s aura is highlighted more with additional embroidery using golden thread.
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State JKKN Contact Information
Puan Nurshahrinna Syahrial
Cultural Officer
Jabatan Kebudayaan dan Kesenian Negara, Sabah
Kompleks JKKN Sabah,
Jalan Tasik off KM4 Jalan Penampang,
88200 Kota Kinabalu
SABAH
088-205070
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