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Oceanic - The Bajau

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The Bajau of Malaysia fish and dive for almost everything they eat.
Some live in houses on the beach or on stilts; others have no homes but their boats.
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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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  • A Bajau paddling past a starfish, straight posture on his canoe, skinny pants, eye out looking for food.
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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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  • 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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  • A fisherman's catch after a morning fishing.
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  • Didi tying a fish.
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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 Bajau family cooks a dinner of coral fish over open flames on their lepa-lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • Tuna for lunch, cooked on the houseboat.
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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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  • Father and daughter fishing directly from inside their bamboo stilt house.
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  • Coral fish for lunch.
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  • Kids dressing eachother.
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  • A young boy sleeps near a pot of abalone that is being prepared for lunch.
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  • View over a stilt house settlement.
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  • An old Bajau woman living all year round on a Lepa-lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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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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  • 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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  • Bajau siblings living all year round on a Lepa-lepa, a traditional houseboat.
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  • Siblings playing during an outing on land.
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  • Dido, after an afternoon spear fishing.
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  • Cooking a crab.
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  • Looking underwater for octopus.
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  • Collecting sea cucumbers.
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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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  • 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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  • Tarumpit spears a fresh catch, a stingray.
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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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  • Attaching a houseboat in a rain storm.
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