The Punan

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These tribesmen are the original inhabitants of Borneo who even preceed the Dayaks. Very elusive aboriginals, the Punans run when they smell you coming. About 10,000 are left in scattered isolated pockets. Some groups have been farming for about 5 years. Wizards in jungle craft and masters of the terrain, the Punans don't eat rice but live off fruit and wild berries, hunt game with blowpipes (when they fire a dart, they don't miss), and even use packs of hunting dogs to kill wild boar. These nomadic hunters can shoot rapids in canoes while standing up. Their features are more Mongolian than the Dayaks' and the Dayaks consider them savages. They are very superstitious, into the ways of panthers and wild boars. You could see them come down to the villages to barter boar tusk necklaces, panther teeth and skins, bear claws, deer horns, monkey gall bladders, snake stones, orangutan skulls and other natural produce for salt and tobacco (they all smoke like mad). getting there: Punans are found upriver from Berau and Balungan in the hinterlands of the Tabang subdistrict and on the Kayan from Tarakan in Peso and Lesan subdistricts; in Longpalay, Longbanuium, Longsuku, Berau District, they number about 500. They are also found on the Bahau River near the Giram Baleo river gorge (a fierce current running through a deep central channel) and over the hills of these forests. Punans also inhabit the areas west of Longkemuat, Longbenato, Longpeliran and in Batumesjid, Muara Ancalong Subdistrict, numbering in all about 2000. It's better if you arrange to go with a government party, they could be defensively hostile. They are fearless because, they don't know any better. One group still lives a mesolithic existence in a stone cave, the Stone Punan.