Gawai Antu Festival

Gawai Antu is an Iban phrase, and means "festival for the departed souls." Although not common to all Iban communities, it is practised mainly by the people of the Sri Aman Division, particularly the Kalaka and Saribas rivers and their tributaries. Gawai Antu is not merely the Iban equivalent of annual feasts like the Christian All Souls Day or the Taoist Hungry Ghost Festival. It is a rare and splendid occasion, held at the most once in a generation for any given longhouse, and usually far less frequently than that.

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