This card came from my very first direct swap in PostCrossing. It started at the end of July. The recipient got my card in August. Mailed this one on 9th of September and it arrived 3 days ago. I didn't knew that Malaysia is a slow-mail country till now. But maybe it's an exception... Anyway, never loose hope !!!
It's my first Malaysian card and it show an aborigine (called Orang Asli) who plays a nose flute. The "Orang Asli" are made up of nearly 100 different ethnic sub-groups. These include around twenty in Peninsular Malaysia although administratively, they are categorized as Negrito, Senoi and Aboriginal Malay. Sabah and Sarawak, on the other hand, has between 30 to 40 distinct sub-groups each with an even more amazing number of languages and dialects. Malaysia has one of the oldest rainforests where there are still those jungle tribes who hunt with blowpipes using poisoned dart. They hunt monkeys, gibbons, squirrels and birds. They have their own dances and musical instruments like the one shown in the picture.
The nose flute is spread all over the Pacific Rim and partially in Africa, India and China.
The stamp (70 sen - 2010) shows an Negrito aborigine who "menyumpit" (hunts with a blowpipe). Primarily hunter-gathers, the Negrito people subsist on the bounty of Peninsular Malaysia's abundant rainforests for food as well as shelter.
Thank You, SL Liew !
Country: Malaysia
Description: Orang Asli plays a nose flute
Publisher: Yacine Collection
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