Orang Asli Borneo Utara: Longgokan Kulit Siput Laut dan Kulit Kerang di Bukit Tudu, Kulambai Kota Belud, Sabah, Malaysia Timur.

[Sila lihat cerita berkaitan - Orang Asli Borneo Utara: Longgokan Kulit Siput Laut dan Kulit Kerang di beberapa puncak Bukit Kelawat Kota Belud.]

Di halaman muka surat 270 sehingga 273 pengarang buku berjudul AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES IN BORNEO, Encik IVOR H.N. EVANS menceritakan tentang satu tapak penempatan di satu bukit di Kota Belud yang bernama Bukit Tudu. Lokasi Bukit Tudu ialah di kawasan Kulambai Kota Belud. Pada masa sekarang wujud satu kampung di Kulambai bernama Mendia Tudu jadi menjata Tudu mungkin Bulud Tudu ataupun Bukit Tudu. Jarak lokasi Bukit Boluhu (bukit Pesisir pantai mukim Kelawat, lokasi cerita penempatan awal orang Dusun di Kelawat -Klik hiper pautan ini) dan Bukit Tudu ialah di sekitar 10KM. Bukit Tudu boleh dilihat dari Bukit Boluhu arah Utara.

Lokasi Bukit Boluhu dan Bukit Tudu

Pada masa itu (tahun 1920'an) Ketua Kerajaan Tempasuk Haji Arshad (Arsat) memberitahunya yang bukit ini satu perkampungan orang Dusun di satu ketika dahulu. Iaitu zaman sebelum penaklukan ke atas Tempasuk oleh orang Irranun dan Bajau. Haji Arshad juga memberitahunya  lagenda yang mengatakan perkampungan ini musnah dilanda peting beliung.

Penulis buku menemui serpihan periuk-belanga di merata tempat. Juga serpihan tembikar ringkas (rough pottery), ketulan tulang binatang, kebanyakannya tulang babi, dan jumlah banyak kulit siput jenis kepa dan tiram/kima (English cockle).

Berdasarkan buku Among Primitive Peoples on Borneo ini penulis blog menemui ciri-ciri peninggalan yang serupa di antara penempatan Bukit Tudu dan Bukit Boluhu (Klik hiper pautan ini untuk cerita.) Iaitu serpihan periuk-belanga, tembikar, kulit siput, tulang. Tulang binatang berkemungkinan juga tulang babi. Babi, anjing dan ayam merupakan ternakan tradisi suku kaum Dusun di Borneo.

Judul Buku: AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES IN BORNEO 

A DESCRIPTION OF THE LIVES, HABITS & CUSTOMS OF THE PIRATICAL HEAD- HUNTERS OF NORTH BORNEO, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF INTERESTING OBJECTS OF PREHISTORIC ANTIQUITY DISCOVERED IN THE ISLAND 

IVOR H.N. EVANS, B.A, 1922

Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute 

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..........With regard to the village site on the hill called Tudu, which I have mentioned above, my intention was first called to the place by Orang Kaya Haji Arsat, the head Government chief of the Tempassuk. He told me that it was reported that the hill-top had been occupied in former days by a Dusun village — that is, in the times before the invasion of the Tempassuk by Bajaus and Illanuns — and that there was a legend about the destruction of the village by a hurricane; further, that men who had climbed the hill in recent years had found its top strewn with fragments of the cooking-pots used by the ancient occupants. On asking one of my Dusun friends about the matter, I found that the legend of Tudu was well known, and obtained the following story from him. 

Long ago some men of Kampong Tudu were looking for 

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wood to make a fence, and while they were searching they came upon what appeared to be a great tree trunk, which was lying on the ground. They began to cut it with their working-knives, intending to make their fence from it, but to their surprise blood came from the cuts. So they decided to walk along to one end of the " trunk " and see what it was. When they came to the end they found that they had been cutting into a great snake, and that the end of the " trunk " was its head. They therefore made stakes and, driving them into the ground, bound the snake to them and killed it. They then flayed the skin from the body, and taking it and the meat home they made a great feast from its flesh. The skin of the snake they made into a great drum, and while they were drinking they beat the drum to try its sound, but for a long time it remained silent. At last, in the middle of the night, the drum began to sound of its own accord : " Duk, Duk, Kagu; Duk, Duk, Kagu" (Kagu is Bajau for hurricane or typhoon). Then came a great hurricane and swept away all the houses in the village: some of them were carried out to sea together with the people in them ; others settled down at what is now Tempassuk village and other places, and from them arose the present settlements.

Being interested in the tale, and thinking that there was very probably some truth in the story of a village on the hill-top, as it would be an almost impregnable site in war- time, I arranged with the Orang Kaya to make the climb, and a few days later started from Kotabelud with three or four Dusun coolies armed with changkuls (a kind of Chinese hoe). At Fort Alfred I met the Orang Kaya, accompanied by an Illanun follower, and we started a very long and hot climb up the sides of the hill, which were covered with lalang (a rough grass).

On arrival at the top we at once saw that it would make a most admirable situation for a fort, as Tudu commands the whole of the surrounding country, and the hill-top is 

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sufficiently flat to accommodate easily a decent-sized village, though water seemed to be scarce. The most prominent objects on the hill were two immense memplum or impalum trees which were in fruit at the time. These were obvious signs that there either had been a village on the hill, or that people had visited the hill-top in bygone days.

The next thing was to find a site for our excavations, and after searching for profitable ground for a short time by uprooting tussocks of lalang and inspecting the soil below them, I decided that one place, where the humus was very black, and where two or three pieces of rough pottery were found near the surface, was most probably ground on which a house had stood. In this opinion I was speedily confirmed, as on driving two intersecting trenches, about two and a half feet deep, at right angles across the site we came upon many fragments of rough pottery, broken bones of animals — chiefly pigs — and large numbers of sea-shells of species related to the clam and English cockle.

In addition to these we found four objects of much greater interest : one a water-rounded stone of granite with a diameter of about three and a half inches, which the Dusun coolies said would be probably used for smoothing the inside of cooking-pots during the process of manufacture ; another an almost circular pebble of sandstone of slightly less diameter than the " potting-stone." This was flattened on either side and had an artificially made indentation in the centre of each flattened surface. Worked stones, sometimes completely perforated, sometimes with only two chiselled or drilled depressions, as in the above case, are frequently found in England associated with other articles of neolithic culture. Such stones were probably used as hammers, those with a hole having had a wooden handle pushed through them, and those with depressions only being held in the hand, the depressions aflbrding a firm grip for the thumb and the index finger. It is possible that the bored stones may have been used as club-heads — c,f, the .......

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