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At The Same Chopsticks Dayak War Weapons Hunting
Chopsticks are one of the weapons used by the Dayak tribe. In addition to hunting, chopsticks into a tool of war. Terms of use chopsticks or sipet has its own advantages as it can be used as a distance weapon and not destroy nature because of the natural materials of manufacture. And one of the advantages of this sipet chopsticks or have an accuracy of fire that can reach 218 yards or about 200 meters.
Judging from the shape of chopsticks, chopstick has a round shape and has a length of between 1.5 to 2 meters, about 2-3 centimeters in diameter. At the end of the chopsticks are treated as shells shoot targets as small as 3-5 centimeters in size diamonds. At the center of the hollowed out as a place masuknyadamek chopsticks (chopsticks child). At the top of the chopsticks, more precisely on the front of the target crosshairs mounted a spear or sangkoh (in the Dayak language).Sangkoh mountain made of stone and then tied with a woven uei (rattan).![]()
Type of wood that is usually used to make wooden chopsticks in general is looking, ironwood or tabalien, plepek wood, and wood resak. Not to forget also Tamiang ataulamiang, a type of bamboo that is small, segmented long, hard, and contains toxins. Not all people have the expertise to make a chopstick or sipet. On the island of Borneo alone there are only a few tribes who have expertise in the manufacture of chopsticks, the Ot Danum Dayak tribe, Punan, Apu Kayan, Bahau, Daylight, and the Dayak tribe of Sand.

