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Word: sekapan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last of a dying breed. Kojan's kitchen lintel is decorated with a radiant succubus motif, and when I ask the legend behind it - in which a hunter is seduced and eaten by a beautiful spirit - Calvin perks up; he has never heard it either. Later, at a nearby Sekapan longhouse, 35-year-old Stephen George proudly shows me an ironwood dugout that can fit 93 rowers. But he only reluctantly shows me his favorite tattoo - a Chinese dragon on an inner thigh, where you'd expect an ancient tribal design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebb and Flow in Borneo | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

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