Burial Traditions

Burial traditions and rituals of death in Dayak tribes is set firmly in customary law.
Burial of the various systems in line with a long history of human arrival in Borneo.
In history there are three burial culture in Borneo:
  * Burial without the container and without supplies, with the frame folded position.
  * Burial in stone coffin (dolmen)
  * Burial with container wood, bamboo, or woven mats. This is an evolving system of the last burial.




According to tradition Benuaq both distinguished burial place or form:
1. container (crate) corpse -> instead of a coffin: lungun, and the box selokng
2. container bones: tempelaq (poster 2) and kererek (pole 1) and jars.

In general there are two stages of burial:
  ~   Burial the first (primary)
   ~  Burial the second (secondary).