A Murut or Dusun village usually consists of a single long hut divided into a great number of small rooms, one for each family--a jungle apartment house, as it were.
Illustration: Dusun women The Dusuns, who are found in the jungles of the interior.
Among the Dusun of British North Borneo the marriage of children of the well-to-do is consummated by the eating of rice from the same plate.
Among the Tuaran Dusun of British North Borneo, a fire is built near the mat on which the corpse lies, to protect the body from evil spirits, who are feared as body snatchers (Evans, Jour.
Not only the rivers or districts but indeed each dusun is independent of, though not unconnected with, its neighbours, acting in concert with them by specific consent.
The first dusun on the other side is named Kalubar, and situated on the banks of the river Musi.
The respect paid to one of these is little more than as to an elder of a family held in esteem, and this the old men of the dusun share with him, sitting by his side in judgment on the little differences that arise among themselves.
After again crossing the Ikan stream we arrived at dusun Simpang.
At dusun Si Ballowe, to which our road lay south-easterly, through pepper and rice plantations, sampans were in readiness to convey us down the river.
Every dusun has a ballei or town hall, about a hundred and twenty feet long and proportionably broad, the woodwork of which is neatly carved.
Were it not for this power every dusun of every river would be at war with its neighbour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dusun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
