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Malaysia - Borneo, the Bajau

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  • Her face dusted in bedak sejuk, a cooling powder made of rice and pandan leaves, Alpaida paddles out to visit friends in stilt houses. The teen and her family belong to the tribal group known as the Sea Bajau because they live year-round on their lepa-lepas, handmade houseboats.
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  • Kids fishing coral fish on dug out canoes, near Bodgaya island.
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  • A fisherman's catch after a morning fishing.
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  • In and around the stilt house settlement off Bodgaya island.
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  • A fishermen return after a morning fishing. In and around the stilt house settlement off Bodgaya island.
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  • Kids dressing eachother.
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  • Stilt houses off Boheydulang island.
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  • Tuna for lunch, cooked on the houseboat.
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  • Inda Mula, an old Bajau woman living all year round on a Lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • An old Bajau woman living all year round on a Lepa-lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • Inda Mulla's relatives living all year round on a Lepa, a traditional houseboat. Keeping a bird as a pet on her boat.
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  • On a house-boats. Large birds are sometimes kept as pets, much like we keep cats or dogs on land.
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  • Inda Mulla's relatives living all year round on a Lepa, a traditional houseboat. Keeping a bird as a pet on her boat.
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  • Left: A mother and her sons grab an early dinner of fish and cassava diner at the stern of her houseboat, or lepa-lepa. Large birds are kept as pets, much like we keep cats or dogs on land. Right: A coral fish is speared by a Bajau fisherman. The Bajau free dive, mostly catching coral fish. Fish such as tuna live in waters too deep to be hunted.
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  • Solpan, a fisherman, at dusk, off Bodgaya island.
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  • Looking underwater for octopus. Fisherman named Tarumpit fishing with duggout canoe off Boheydulang island.
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  • Looking underwater for octopus.
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  • Tarumpit about to get lunch, diving from his dug-out canoe.
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  • Fisherman looking underwater for octopus while propelling himself with a swimfin made of a piece of drift plastic found on the beach.
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  • Looking underwater for octopus. Fisherman named Tarumpit fishing with duggout canoe off Boheydulang island.
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  • Tarumpit spears a fresh catch, a stingray.
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  • Catching octopus. Fisherman named Tarumpit fishing with duggout canoe off Boheydulang island.
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  • Tarumpit spears a fresh catch.
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  • Bajau nomads of the Sulu Sea can hold their breath for several minutes while hunting on the sea floor. Here, Tarumpit brings back an octopus.
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  • A Bajau fisherman clutches an octopus he speared after diving from his boat. Except for a dish made of ground cassava, all the Bajau’s food comes from the sea. A Bajau baby (left) naps by a pan of abalone that will be his family’s dinner.
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  • Fishing from inside the bamboo stilt house of Robeldati, off Boheydulang island.
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  • Father and daughter fishing directly from inside their bamboo stilt house.
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  • At the he bamboo stilt house of Robeldati, off Boheydulang island.
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  • Kid sleeping on a fish net. Fishermen fishing with nets on duggout canoe off Boheydulang island.
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  • Siblings playing during an outing on land.
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  • Bajau siblings living all year round on a Lepa-lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • Coral fish for lunch. Bajau family living all year round on a Lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • Coral fish for lunch.
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  • Home on water: a Bajau prepares a fire to cook coral fish. Humans are the only species that cook their food. Some anthropologists argue that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus - about 2 million years ago.
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  • A family cooking diner of coral fish, over a fire. Bajau family living all year round on a Lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • A Bajau family cooks a dinner of coral fish over open flames on their lepa-lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • A fisherman scares fish into a net with a long pole. He hided his face from the sun with a mask.
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  • Afternoon catch.
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  • Bamboo stilt houses off Maiga Island.
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  • Bamboo stilt house settlement off Bodgaya island.
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  • View over a stilt house settlement.
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  • Arriving for lunch at a stilt house. You can come swimming or by dug-out canoe. Bajau people (also known as "Sea Gypsies”) live a seaborne lifestyle, getting most of their food from the ocean. Lots of them are stateless and not recognised by neighboring countries because of their nomadic lifestyle.
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  • The Bajau give new meaning to eating fresh from the sea. An old man on his morning fishing hunt.
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  • Old man named Sahad fishing off Bodgaya island.
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  • Lemon in a coconut, Solpan house.
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  • The Bajau of the Sulu Sea fish and dive for almost everything they eat. Some live in stilt houses; others have no homes but their boats.
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  • Giant clam. Man named Tobel fishing for coral fish, giant clams and scallops, off Boheydulang island.
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  • Giant clam. Man named Tobel fishing for coral fish, giant clams and scallops, off Boheydulang island.
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  • Man named Tobel fishing for coral fish, giant clams and scallops, off Boheydulang island.
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  • Coral fish. Fishing off Boheydulang island.
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  • A young boy sleeps near a pot of abalone that is being prepared for lunch.
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  • Attaching a houseboat in a rain storm.
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  • A teenage boy has diner in his bamboo stilt house. On Mantabuan island. On Mantabuan island.
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  • Fish with Lemongrass and shredded manioc. On Mantabuan island.
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  • Collecting sea cucumbers.
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  • Colorful orange corral fish, caught off Mantabuan island.
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  • Colorful orange corral fish, caught off Mantabuan island.
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  • On Mantabuan island. Dido with melon.
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  • Dido with cooked coral fish called "Ogus". On Mantabuan island.
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  • A Bajau paddling past a starfish, straight posture on his canoe, skinny pants, eye out looking for food.
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  • Fishing and hunting coral fish with Dido, from his dug-out canoe. Off Mantabuan island.
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  • Fishing and hunting coral fish with Dido, from his dug-out canoe. Off Mantabuan island.
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  • Bajau travel by dug-out canoe to the edge of the reef, peer into the water until they spot a fish, then dive in to spear it.
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  • Didi tying a fish.
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  • The Bajau may wear Western attire such as skinny jeans, but they still fish as they have for centuries. For a young Bajau man named Dido, they day’s catch is a young round batfish.
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  • Dido, after an afternoon spear fishing.
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  • Cooking a crab.
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  • A low tide, woman named Moti collecting urchins and extracting the meat of it. Off Mantabuan island.
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  • Cooking blue fish named Ogus. On Mantabuan island.
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  • Anita cooking seaweed for lunch. On Maiga island.
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  • Dido cooking blue coral fish called "Ogus". On Mantabuan island.
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  • Catch of the day, Octopus for diner at Selakan island.
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  • Fried fish. On Mantabuan island.
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  • Diner at Selakan island.
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  • Greens, squid, fish and mangoe. Diner at Selakan island.
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