COLOURS IN INDIGENOUS CULTURES

COLOURS 

IN INDIGENOUS CULTURES

Colin Nicholas

Published in The New Straits Times Annual 1997/1998. pp. 100-107.

The indigenous communities in Sabah and Sarawak seem to have so much colour in their material culture that the Orang Asli groups in Peninsular Malaysia seem ‘pale’ by comparison. Yet the use of colours is important in indigenous cultures to maintain a sense of who they are ....

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