The Importance Of The Kadazandusun Festival: Kaamataan

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• About of Kadazandusun Festival – Kaamataan Kaamatan is a word that derived from “Magavau” in local language of Kadazandusun which means “harvest”. Kaamatan is a main festival that celebrate the “spirit of paddy” by Kadazandusun during paddy-harvesting period. (mykmu.net., 2013) According to the oral story, Kinoingan which means God and her wife Suminundu had a daughter named Huminodun. For saving the Kadazandusun ethnic from starving because lack of food resources, they been forced to sacrificed their dearly daughter, Huminodun. She is killed and her body was buried by following all the local traditions accordingly. Surprisingly, her body turned into different variety of seeds that became the food resources of Kadazandusun and one of it …show more content…

Nowadays the advancement of technology are continuously improve and directly replacing the manpower to achieve the maximum product to gain maximum income, but how many Kadazandusun still harvesting paddy by manpower? Due to the technology, not much Kadazandusun really understand the importance of Kaamatan because they harvest paddy by machine instead of using manpower. (kdca.org.my., n.d.)Not only the advancement of technology, young people are more interested in others field instead of plantation such as constructions and businesses. There are no much skillful young people can really contribute themselves in plantation, unfortunately, the meaning of Kaamatan are neglecting by the society …show more content…

Kadazan-Dusun Cultural Association (KDCA) has been attracting thousands of locals as well as tourist from around the world to witness the grand of Kaamatan Harvest Festival in Sabah. Guests will be welcome by songs, dances and of course tasty local foods. These not only show the enthusiastic of Malaysian and also promoting the specialty of Malaysia to other country, so more and more foreign tourists will visit Malaysia for our special culture, not to mention, it also can generate great income for provoke the economy of our

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