NAME

: NURUL HUSNA BT BAHARUDIN

CLASS
: 1 RAJIN 2014
SUBJECT : TADAU KAAMATAN

Introduction

Tadau Kaamatan Harvest Festival (Kaamatan Tadau) or in the Kadazan

language "Magavau" a special celebration ceremony to honor
"Bambazon" the spirit of rice.
Feast "Magavau" is usually held after the completion of the harvest.
Tadau Kaamatan however has its antecedents in religious beliefs and
traditional rituals of the indigenous Kadazan-Dusun people which are
directly connected to rice planting and harvesting.

Tadau Kaamatan or Harvest Festival

celebrations are celebrate at the end of
May
This festival is celebrated at Sabah and
Labuan

PREPERATION
The men used to organise group hunting
expeditions to provide enough meat for the
celebrations.
The women organised themselves to produce
enough rice for making rice wine (tapai) and for
cooking on the day of the Kaamatan celebration.
At village (or kampung) level, the eve of the
Kaamatan Festival was lead by the Bobohizans,
the ritual specialists paying homage and offering
thanks givings to Bambaazon, the rice spirit, for
the good harvest.

CELEBRATION
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With the decline in practice of this

animistic religion and the rise of
monotheistic religions such as Christianity
and Islam among the Kadazan and Dusun
people in Sabah, much of the ritualistic
aspects of Kaamatan are being left out of
the celebration although in some places
they may still be practiced. Kaamatan is
often accompanied with Sugandoi, a
singing/karaoke contest, Unduk Ngadau,
a beauty pageant, and drinking alcohol.
According to the beliefs of the Kadazan
rice spirit is part of Kinoingan - also
known as Bambaazon, who is worshiped
as creator and very powerful source of life.
Bambaazon rice spirit is honored to rice,
rice, and rice. Many believe that "No rice,
no life.

TRADISIONAL COSTUME

SPECIAL FOOD
FOR TADAU
KAAMATAN

HINAVA

NONSUM BAMBANGAN

HINOMPUKA

PENYARAM or PANYARAM

LINONGOT

PAIS UBI

THE END
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