{"id":"DBP2026-001","label":"Kenyah-Badang kidiu paired bullroarer","people_or_site":"Kenyah-Badang","country_current":"Malaysia","historic_region":"Upper Rejang River / Belaga District, Sarawak","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Borneo","local_name":"kidiu","source_term":"kidiu","source_language":"Malay; English","object_description":"Oval wooden blade fixed to a string and handle, swung rapidly through the air for a specific pitch; two instruments played by two players in an interlocking pattern.","function_summary":"Paired players weave interlocking pitches to drive birds, mice and insects from the hill-rice fields; later also played for entertainment in the longhouse.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"dbp_kidiu_kenyah_badang_matusky","source_type":"official_terminology_plus_ethnomusicology","source_url":"https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?d=371752&keyword=badang%3B","page_or_plate":"PRPM entry d=371752; Matusky & Tan 2017, fig. 4.2 p. 266 / ex. 4.9 p. 267","map_confidence":"medium_high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Upper Rejang / Belaga District regional anchor; the sources name the Kenyah-Badang tradition, not one kidiu village or performance site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At harvest in the hill-rice fields of the Upper Rejang, the Kenyah-Badang set the air itself to guard the crop: two players, two kidiu — oval wooden blades on strings and handles — swung fast and pitched against each other in the interlocking weave that runs through Bornean music, gongs and bamboo and, here, bullroarers. The droning pair drove birds, mice and insects off the ripening padi. In time the kidiu came indoors as well: the field’s droning guard became music for entertainment among the residents of the longhouse.","pull_quote":"Kidiu terdiri daripada sekeping kayu berbentuk bujur yang dipasang pada tali dan pemegang ... Kidiu dimainkan oleh suku kaum Kenyah-Badang di kawasan padi bukit semasa padi dituai untuk menghalau serangga perosak.","pull_quote_translation":"Kidiu consists of an oval piece of wood fixed to a string and handle ... It is played by the Kenyah-Badang in hill-rice fields during harvest to drive away insect pests.","pull_quote_cite":"Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, PRPM terminology entry, s.v. 'kidiu'.","term_gloss":"kidiu: Kenyah-Badang name for the paired bullroarer.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM), terminology entry s.v. 'kidiu', d=371752","url":"https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?d=371752&keyword=badang%3B","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013003933/https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?d=371752&keyword=badang%3B"},{"citation":"Patricia Matusky and Tan Sooi Beng, The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions, 2nd ed. (2017), fig. 4.2, p. 266; music example 4.9, p. 267 (preview index)","url":"https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781351839655_A29962683/preview-9781351839655_A29962683.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013004019/https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781351839655_A29962683/preview-9781351839655_A29962683.pdf"},{"citation":"Patricia Matusky, “Aspects of Musical Style among the Kajang, Kayan and Kenyah-Badang of the Upper Rejang River,” Sarawak Museum Journal 36(57) (1986), pp. 185-230","url":"https://museum.sarawak.gov.my/web/subpage/webpage_view/877","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013004045/https://museum.sarawak.gov.my/web/subpage/webpage_view/877"},{"citation":"RILM, 'Functions of the kidiu in East Malaysia,' Bibliolore (11 October 2025), after Patricia Matusky, 'Malaysia,' MGG Online","url":"https://bibliolore.org/2025/10/11/functions-of-the-kidiu-in-east-malaysia/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260611231602/https://bibliolore.org/2025/10/11/functions-of-the-kidiu-in-east-malaysia/"}],"source_citations":"Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM), terminology entry s.v. 'kidiu', d=371752; Patricia Matusky and Tan Sooi Beng, The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions, 2nd ed. (2017), fig. 4.2, p. 266; music example 4.9, p. 267 (preview index); Patricia Matusky, “Aspects of Musical Style among the Kajang, Kayan and Kenyah-Badang of the Upper Rejang River,” Sarawak Museum Journal 36(57) (1986), pp. 185-230; RILM, 'Functions of the kidiu in East Malaysia,' Bibliolore (11 October 2025), after Patricia Matusky, 'Malaysia,' MGG Online","source_display":"Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM), terminology entry s.v. 'kidiu', d=371752; Patricia Matusky and Tan Sooi Beng, The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions, 2nd ed. (2017), fig. 4.2, p. 266; music example 4.9, p. 267 (preview index); Patricia Matusky, “Aspects of Musical Style among the Kajang, Kayan…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Oval wooden blade fixed to a string and handle, swung rapidly through the air for a specific pitch; two instruments played by two players in an interlocking pattern.","function_display":"Paired players weave interlocking pitches to drive birds, mice and insects from the hill-rice fields; later also played for entertainment in the longhouse.","confidence_display":"medium to high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kenyah badang","display_name":"Kenyah-Badang kidiu paired bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SEA-002_nmnh_8375380_dyak_hantu.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEA-002_nmnh_8375380_dyak_hantu_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, flat wooden Dyak slat lies horizontally, with a cord looped through a hole at its left end.","credit":"Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology (nmnhanthropology_8375380)","license":"Smithsonian — image 'Usage Conditions Apply' (metadata CC0)","source_page":"https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhanthropology_8375380","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Dyak hantu-hantuan: a pierced wooden slat on cord.","pool_id":"borneo-dyak-hantu"},"slug":"dbp2026-001-kenyah-badang"}