I have an hour to kill during the afternoon today so I
visited one of our local souvenir shops, KADAIKU that sells many of our local
handicrafts.
Located at Sinsuran, it is actually near to the Filipino
Market; behind of the Alliance Bank (if you can see from the Filipino Market).
Just today, I was
curious that there is a man sitting right in the middle of the shop with some
carving tools on the working table. So I asked the person in charge there at
the counter, “What is he doing here?” It’s actually part of a monthly event in
KADAIKU that they will have the natives to visit the souvenir shop and show the
process of making the selected souvenirs. And today, the topic is The Making of
Semporna Lepa-Lepa
Traditional Boat.
Lepa means Boat
in the dialect of east coast Sea Bajau people, the gypsies of the sea. Sea
Bajau spends most of their lives on lepa-lepa boat. It is one of the most
attractive handicrafts that are made from wood. If you would like to know more
about it, visit them tomorrow (last day!) but if you missed this, then you got
to come back next month with a different topic – Pandan Handicraft.
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