Point of No Return. Hand tapped tattooing in Borneo

[@mikev262]

Watching this made me remember when I travelled to Borneo in 1993 because that's when I first heard about deforestation on the tv and I wanted to see it for myself. I hitch-hiked over the mountains on the back of logging company utes and up the Rajang river to a remote Jungle school. There were no concrete long houses but the river was already silted and the destruction of the land and the spirit of the people involved in the industry was already evident. It shocks me to think this is still going on at an accelerated rate. What will it take to stop? I hope these indigenous tattooists can some how revive the culture and educate the new generation to unite and stand up to protect their homes.

[@earthmarkings]

Great documentary! Really love the old forms of tattooing 🌞

[@s.w.p7541]

Greeting from Singapore, my parents originally from Sri Aman (mom) and Kanowit (dad) Sarawak. I was born in Sabah (tawau) called as Iban Sabah and now bejalai (migrated) to Singapore for more than 10 years. Always travelling every years visiting family and relatives in Borneo Island. I am proud to be Iban and i am against deforestation in Borneo Island. 💪

[@s.w.p7541]

If anyone interest to know more about how iban in Sabah lives their life, please visit us or go to our FB page at 'Iban Sabah Page' for more informations. 😉

[@anonymoussmoker4471]

Hello and thank you so much Fade FX for loving the arts and lifestyle of the native Borneo honestly, creatively. --- Twin Karamoy Channel

[@troyDuke1]

i've been tattooing since 1991 & I LOVE what you're doing

[@kittied4482]

Bravo! Loved hearing about the headhunting, his voice and storytelling is very soothing and informative!

[@newfolder999]

Thank you for great documentary! I'm pure iban but stay at peninsular Malaysia for most of my time. But when holiday i back to Borneo especially when gawai. I will get iban tattoo for sure when i get back to my hometown at sarawak in the future. I will start with bungai terong. Proud of my own cultures.

[@marcellinusmusic]

Thank you for this great documentary.

[@caelansmith6093]

So I was in Sarawak last summer, we literally had the same driver through his mutual friend Sampson. They took us to a valley where we then treked 8 hours to a village. I still have the hand tapped tattoos today from the village and they mean the world to me.

[@garymason2474]

I I have just come across this amazing video and I take my hat off to you for documenting this. I love the beautiful people I saw and the awesome tattoos they wear and I real hope the revival lives on. Thank you for also documenting mans quest for money, it was sad to see the loss of the rain forest and the animal that rest within.. Religion has no place there and I hope it gets kicked out. Would love to get a tattoo by you. Blessing to the people of Borneo and to you..

[@Written...]

Interesting you say religion has no place there and then give blessings to everyone in the borneo. Me thinks me smells bullshit hunting for UpVotes

[@justinekilatjambai58]

Fade fx thanks for introducing Sarawak tatoo to whole world.

[@doncorleone9818]

There is no protection, we can't do nothing. Our goverment is greedy as shit. They have gun, we have gun too but they have money and bring their tank. We can't fight a tank. RIP Borneo jungle. Glad that I got my Iban tribe tattoo before it vanished. I'm pure Iban from batang lemanak, good documentary you got here and thank you. :)

[@unclerazzle]

Finally got round to watching this Fade! Awesome film, I'm looking forward to next one! X

[@budisetiawan5136]

I am from Borneo be side part of indonesia we have diffrent style tatto from suku dayak because we have lot suku dayak in kalimantan from west to east welcome to visit kalimantan

[@raynaldluta4831]

I am an iban tribe and my grandpa has full body traditional tattoo.btw I love this video

[@dyanel2890]

Thank oh so much for putting information like this out there!

[@eko6817]

We Love iban Sarawak Malaysian from central Borneo Indonesian

[@jaju710]

There are specific reasons for making Iban tattoos called pantang or kalingai. The overall design of tattoo on respective body parts must be properly made by the tattoo experts and elders. This is so that for the tattoos to serve functional and aesthetic purposes namely to call for spiritual self-protection while on daily activities and major sojourns, to mark key events of history or achievements in one's life and to act as decorative accessories for the human body.

[@febrikriss1781]

Thanks

[@thesorungan_Bularksapiink]

Hey fade..mybe you should visit borneo again..

[@donbrashsux]

Really cool vid ..I love Sarawak

[@muhammadabdi9878]

This is good ,, i'm from borneo island

[@kostantinosmag2986]

NICE ONE...The put something in the ink to allow me to see the spirits.... Good one...

[@moniqueh7993]

And. Allllllllll of a sudden I felt beautiful . I am half Indonesian half Dutch . I’m pale but have allllll the indo traits but didn’t even realize . Strong jaw line . Big ass forehead that I’ve always tried to hide with bangs. I’m tattooed. And a self taught tattoo artist Certified micro pigmentation Artist . I’m the weird girl that loves the forest or anything outdoors or diy way to much . I have tools ⚒️ like many of them. I’ve always felt like I didn’t belong. Now I know where my roots really are. It’s making me cry a stupid happy ugly cry. I just did my makemanfuck

[@moniqueh7993]

This was an awesome documentary thank you for this !! It was beautifully done

[@fademeraki]

Huge love. We're all connected ❤

[@ilmisiansi7899]

saya suku banjar tapi saya bersahabat dengan suku dayak, kami setanah borneo. ibarat adik dan kakak, yang tak kan terpisahkan. walau pun kami orang banjar sudah tak terlalu lagi dalam kehidupan adat nenek moyang. tapi kami tetap menghargai sanak saudara kami dari suku suku banjar dan dayak borneo.

[@arkan.rahmadian]

I'm a Sarawakian, a Dayak Bidayuh true blood from both parents. I'm not here to comment much about tattoo but being born as a Christian Dayak, I got myself tattooed during my teen years but after I've became a grown adult and I got deep into Christianity Theological doctrine, I would just like to add some details regarding tattoo in Christianity. In Christianity your body is the temple to the Holy Spirit and some tattoo from some culture have spiritual meaning and definitely clashed with that value, you know what I meant. Thai tattoo for example. And today actually many Christians have tattoo of course depicting Christianity. Christianity is not a religion, it's a personal spiritual realtionship of oneself with the Divine one so there's no such one template for all, but each have of their own special relation, if you can get what I mean. Tattoo wasn't just some kind of body fashion back then, to women yes but to men at certain matter it was not just for some chic swag, it does have spiritual meaning to it, not entirely in general term though. Regarding the issue of the land that being manipulated politically by greedy ruling elites they seems to have their opinions and info about right but not entirely correct. Today Dayak locals have successfully taken and fought back the land bit by bit. I'm talking not just about Sarawak region but Borneo Island as a whole. These artists are great in doing tattoo as art and that's it. They are entirely in their artistic world and rarely aware much about politics and other ideologies, but anyway thanks for a good documentary regarding part of the culture of our land and you seems to care a lot with great passion and honesty regarding our land issue. From the way you say it and that tone, you are a fighter just like us Dayak warriors, and another thank you for that. We rarely hear that from our local tattoo artists. Shalom and be blessed.

[@danny92980]

These people live a good life cause even they are old age they still look a lot better than the one that live in the city....

[@60secondassassin57]

Utai nama translator bkenyak. Hurmm. Dini menua akik nyak bak minit 17:30 laban aku ka ngagak pantang ari urang lama. Respect ku urang tuai nyak. Nyak meh permata kitai. Respect ku nggau d nyak akik.

[@jimmylumpatiu7846]

salam , waktu d sarawak pernah buat tatoo d studionya..cantik..

[@Mark-jy4qt]

loved it!!! very good work! respect =)

[@fademeraki]

Thank you

[@muhammadiqbalisla50]

i hate deforest in my village , thanks for this video i really miss my village at borneo 🙂

[@La_Fredyopera]

Beautiful 😊

[@channelmasdoni]

Nice documentary, borneo is my hometown can you share the music background very nice song. Thankyou

[@fademeraki]

Music is by my friends band. The name is in the info section under the video. Thanks for watching! I love Borneo! Check out @tattooanthropology on instagram for some of my pictures and tattoo history

[@channelmasdoni]

@@fademeraki Thank you very much, feels like coming home when i hear music from At Adau

[@fademeraki]

@@channelmasdoni they are cool guys! Our camera assistant is the sape player. His name is Ezra

[@fademeraki]

Thank you! Yes music in the credits

[@fademeraki]

Go to 29.34mins

[@jameseffle746]

Even though there is a lot of Christian bashing I will say I believe in god,and yet I have both my legs covered in ink,and my god loves my ink and me .

[@chanelini804]

this head skull is vantak name in west borneo

[@jayveedavemernado6464]

That traditional tattooing of tribe in borneo is the same in the philippines . in the mountains of cordillera region specially in buscalan kalingga. Apo wang odd The last traditional tatoo artist in the philippines. The culture , practice and style of tatooing is very the same .

[@afdhalyusra9223]

very good

[@afdhalyusra9223]

when to visit mentawai? mentawai also has a tatto😍

[@princejohn1358]

It is similar to us Nagas but the difference at the age of 15 we are send out to war to prove as a man some die is dead the victor is respected Long live Nagalim kuknalim ❤️

[@Handpoketattoobali]

Cool!

[@ryanlaing898]

6:40 -6:50 those were the Orang Ulu women. Most probably of Kayan or Kenyah tribe because of their long earlobes. I’m a Kayan by the way!

[@stanlee8479]

Thats iban lah..u see the bungai terung tatoo at men shoulder.. My grandpa n grandma also make their ear long ma..

[@erickstephen4711]

@@stanlee8479 itu kayan kenyah lah bro

[@attirom5242]

My grandma grandpa iban have long earlobe too.we still have their picture in the wall.

[@ryanlaing898]

@@stanlee8479 look at the time stamp that I mentioned lol have u watched the whole vid?

[@picaboopiggi]

The translation is a bit off.. eg: in 13:34 what he actually said was “they thought the women wanna sleep with them” and thats why everyone was laughing and in 16:48 he said he is 98 years old and had tattoos since he’s 28 years old

[@fademeraki]

Thank you. I think the translator recording could have gone out of time with the recordings a couple times making it hard to subtitle exactly. It was hard to edit because usually the whole village are just off camera and would be discussing the topic too when I was asking questions for interviews. It's so old now I don't have a way to edit it but I appreciate the translation and will be sure to get more help if I can do something like this again. It was an amazing experience with just myself and 1 camera person on low budget. Thanks for watching!

[@nursyafizah5981]

The translation should be "they thought I was a woman and they wanna sleep with me"

[@guybuddy1]

Great video! also, I really liked the song at the end. Is there anywhere I can listen to that?

[@fademeraki]

Guy Buddy the musicians are in the credits. They are a fantastic band. Highly recommended. When I made the film those tracks where pre release but you should be able to find them now. Thanks

[@guybuddy1]

Cool ! thanks a lot !

[@mrsc4760]

So depressing how we ate destroying our earth We destroy everything for twinkies

[@kardianus97]

Salam kenal SAYA ASLI SUKU DAYAK KALIMANTAN BARAT

[@theangrybear3987]

Borneo big island 3~word

[@carlocereno7377]

Same as Igorots (Baguio ph) head hunters... But different tattoo...

[@MANU-ho3uq]

💚🙏🏽

[@MuhammadKenYT]

just want to 1 thing.. you are beautiful ;)

[@vay1365]

Indonesian culture, yeaah 🤙🏻

[@crocodilehunters2977]

The translations are way off. Please do not insert your own opinion in the translation. It will cause confusion

[@prsm28galery6]

Tutuh Nyak' Tiop Akal Nyak' Midop

[@smilehoya1133]

its your neighbouring Kadazan from Sabah here hehe, i dont think our tattooing scene is as rich as sarawak's (or maybe i dont see much bcus im in a community with majority of religious ppl lmao) but i do know that we share the fattest butods/sago worms, only in borneo. Also kima to the greedy loggers

[@raynaldluta4831]

Sengapa uduk ktk ngaga translation nyk

[@gajahmada4847]

Dayak tattoo for god

[@TIGERGUTS]

Great documentary. Christianity is complete bullshit and raping of the forest for rubbish food is heartbreaking. Keeping the tradition of the Iban is paramount.

[@febrikriss1781]

It's sad dude but the religion you talking about is not Christian. Trust me if there is not missionaries around, Borneo rainforest would be gone

[@budidoang5868]

pliss subtitle 🙏🇮🇩

[@rambojr6283]

AGI IDUP AGI NGELABAN

[@ravanasrilankatattoo27]

butty full story

[@irmanfirmansyah8254]

Jaga hutan kami stop hancurkan hutan kami

[@i-juy]

so many things i can see from tatoo culture and enviromental ruined by corpotarion

[@yvml6109]

Kesini gegara calon sarjana 🙋

[@attayasuhadha1013]

Borneo or kalimantan is Indonesia, the tribe is Dayak

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

Well, technically Borneo both belong in Indonesia and Malaysia and there's probably lots of different smaller tribe in borneo

[@anonimxxxxxxxx]

Dayak itu ada subsuku bang, kayak iban mentawai dll

[@alzammalikkohler998]

Kalimantan is Indonesia ,but Borneo ,in Indonesia, Malaysia,and brunei

[@angelicaj1443]

Kumbai urg indu ka dmput sida ea🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Mukomaad-nabi-pheodopilia]

Christian come from USA

[@jack8400]

Learn before you talk

[@Mukomaad-nabi-pheodopilia]

@@jack8400 that is true

[@Mukomaad-nabi-pheodopilia]

@@jack8400 i means come in borneo

[@jack8400]

@@Mukomaad-nabi-pheodopiliait's true that christian from usa?..lol