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Huguan Siou
- Huguan Siou is the top leader of the kadazandusun tribes.The term Huguan Siou means the “paramount leader”, but when a person is bestowed the most coveted title in the Kadazandusun-Murut (KDM) community, it means a lot more than being brave – the person represents the whole of KDM community because Huguan Siou in itself is an institution

Joseph Pairin Kitingan

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4.collecting forest product
-Kadazan People, especially those living in interior areas of the state take woods and bamboos to make fences. In addition, they also take Pandanus leaves woven into mats and baskets. Fruits, vegetables and fish products, and hunting resources is for their daily needs, but often it is also sold at the market.

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2.Husbandry And Hunting
- Kadazan people rear pigs, chickens, goats, ducks, cows, goats and geese. Livestock is often sacrificed at the time they celebrate a festival or at a

time when they held a ritual. Besides that Kadazan tribes also hunt for their living. Typically, the animals that they hunt is as wild boar,

tapir, foxes, monkeys and various bird species using the gun, the traditional trap "sunggul", "kisap", "tuwil", "gado" and other

and rifle called "bakakuk". In the past, they hunt with bamboo blowpipe, snares, traps, spears and hunting dogs. As a result of the hunting activity,

the economic activities are of their side.

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3.Fishing
- Kadazan people also catch fish in paddy fields, ponds and rivers with nets, fishing nets and fishing

gear such as the traditional "siud", "SAVAK", traps, "bangkala" and "tambong". Kadazan people from Tatana tribes at the district of Kuala Penyu, is one of tribe that worked as a fisherman.

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1.Farming
-  the Kadazan community known as rice farmers and a major producer of rice in Sabah. They harvest rice using traditional methods such as using a sickle, knives and "linggaman". In the past they practice nomadic farming. They keep the rice in the rice huts and place it in the rice granary called "tangkop". They plowed fields by using the old way using buffalo energy and hoe. However, in some places with the advances in agricultural technology, they began to use tractors to plow the fields. Besides planting rice paddy fields and hills, Kadazan people also planting corn, cassava, tobacco and vegetables such as sweet temu, spinach, pumpkins, petola, beans, peppers and chillies. These crops they planted around the house.

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Gillbert likes oranges

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Not allowed to wander outside for the children born would be ill with skin diseases or walk away from home.

Must not step over the rope to which a buffalo is tied as the birth of the baby will be delayed to ten or eleven months.

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1) No one must do any kind of work on the day of the funeral.
2) While the body is still in the house, all occupants must stay awake. Whoever fall asleep will be doused with water. The purpose of keeping awake is to watch out for the devil (a large bird will try to fly away with the body).

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1)In 1994, a prominent Kadazandusun leader Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Bernard G. Dompok proposed t o the Federal Government that the Kadazandusun language be taught in schools in Sabah.

2) the syllabus takes into account other education emphases such as thinking skills, ICT skills, Learning How to Learn skills, multiple intelligences, values and citizenship education.

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Mother cannot eat buffalo meat or she will age quickly.

She may not wash her hair for a month. If she washes her hair before that, it may cause her to be mentally impaired when she is older.

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-The festival begins on the first of May, celebrated throughout the month of May each year. It culminates in the grand Harvest Festival Celebration on the 30th and 31st of May at the Hongkod Koisaan.
-celebration to honour the Rice Spirit - Bambaazon

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Animist Belief
Kadazan ancestors practised a religious belief that is animistic in nature. They believed that every object such as a tree has a guardian spirit. This is still practised by many Kadazans (or Dusuns) especially those who have not converted to any of the "modern day" religions.

If you travel around Sabah, you may come across such rituals performed by priestesses. For example, if you climb Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in South East Asia, you may witness a priestess offering a slaughtered chicken to pacify the spirits of the mountain. After all, this is Nulu Akinablu.

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Superstitious Belief
If you can call superstition as part of religious beliefs, then many Kadazans do have such belief. Perhaps you can classify this under animistic belief.

This is a system of "belief" which you may say is unreasonable in nature since it can involve belief in some omen, good or bad, just because a certain event occurs.

For example, a group that is on the way to arrange for engagement may abort the journey if the group encounters a big monitor lizard or hears a bird's call.

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BEFORE ANY MAIN RELIGION, THE KADAZAN DUSUN HELD PAGAN CEREMONIES TO APPEASE SPIRITS. THESE INCLUDE SACRIFICIAL MEANS. THE FOUR MAIN SPIRITS THAT THE KADAZAN DUSUN ARE AS FOLLOWED:
ROGON - THE EVIL SPIRITS
KODUDUWO - THE SPIRIT OF A LIVING PERSON
TOMBIRUOH - THE SPIRIT OF THE DEAD
MINAMANGGUN - THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR

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Tangkong
Hip-belt of approximately 84 embossed brass rings on rattan strings (hindavog). Three tangkong are worn together, alternately strung with red (hindagang), black (initom) and red rattan strings for unmarried girls and all black for married women. The string is always "bare" somewhere at the back to avoid asampon (lack of breathing space). Later in life the tangkong are stretched out for various reasons, one of which is so that it is easier to carry a back basket.

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BOBOHIZAN ARE HIGH PRIESTESS OR SPIRIT MEDIUMS IN PAGAN RITES. THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE BOBOHIZAN IS TO APPEASE THE RICE SPIRIT "BAMBAZOON" DURING THE HARVEST FESTIVAL. BESIDES APPEASING THE SPIRITS, THE BOBOHIZAN ALSO WORKS AS A MEDIUM AS WELL AS AN APOTHECARY IN HERBS

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kihongon
Blouse with long sleeves, worn by elderly women and female ritual specialists/priestesses or Bobohizan during ceremonies. The embroidery is similar to the one on the sinuangga'.

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Sinompukung
Blouse with 3/4 sleeves. No embroidery. Usually worn over the sinuangga' like a jacket when the wearer goes out of the house, such as to visit a friend. Nowadays, the sinompukung is often embroidered and worn by older women as a blouse instead of as a jacket as in the olden days.

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Gaung and souva is the traditional garments of the ethnic Kadazandusun men. Gaung is a long-sleeved shirt without embroidery. It is decorated with gold trimming and gold buttons on now days. Souva ia a black trousers worn with waistband that is “toogot” and there are gold trimming on the seams along the hips for modern trousers. Besides, the headcover of handwomen kain kasar which is called “siga” is also worn to complete a look

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WOMEN OF KADAZAN DUSUN WEAR AN ATTIRE CALLED THE "SINUANG" AND "TAPI". A SILVER AND BLACK OUTFIT WITH A BELT OF SILVER COINS AND OTHER ACCESSORIES. THE OUTFIT IS MAINLY MADE OUT OF COTTON.

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-Second name of tapai is called as peuyeum.
-It is an alcoholic and it has a sweet or sour taste.
-this wine is made from  cassava, white rice, or glutinouse rice.
-It can also use it to  make alcoholic beverages.

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Kadazan language can be divided into four

dialect groups as follows;

Kadazan West Coast dialects

Kadazan East Coast dialects

Kadazan North dialects

Kadazan Interior dialects

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The Bambangan is a wild mango with a sharp, unmistakable smell. The skin of this fruit when ripe is very sweet and almost brown, where normally mangoes are yellow. It is most often picked before it ripens and used for pickling with salt and sliced spicy peppers.

Wherever you travel in Malaysia, you will find these delicacies in restaurants and markets, in jars or in prepared dishes ready to eat

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Kadazan language has existed since their ancestors, at first use of the native languages.Originally

the Kadazan community groups are in small amount, over time it evolved into large clusters. Kadazan tribe has its own language. Kadazan tribes and Dusun tribes are actually a different tribe, but were of the same family. Language of both these tribes nearly the same, distinguished only by minor differences in spelling and pronunciation.

For example, "home" as "walai" in Dusun and "hamin" in Kadazan.

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THE RELIGION OF THE KADAZAN DUSUN IS MAJORLY CHRISTIAN. THERE WAS AN ISLAMIC MINORITY UNTIL THE BRITISH ARRIVED AND INFLUENCED THE PEOPLE WITH CHRISTIANITY. ANOTHER RELIGION PRACTISED BY THE KADAZAN-DUSUN IS ANIMISM, WHERE THEY WORSHIP OBJECTS, BELIEVING THEY POSSES SPIRITUAL QUALITIES.

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Kadazan is the indigenous tribes of Sabah, Malaysia. They live in the interior, around the local area and particularly the west coast of Sabah. Kadazan

are the largest ethnic group, about 80% of the people of Sabah. Kadazan ethnic groups use different languages ​​and dialects with various cultural

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TOGUNGGAK

(idiofon)

Idiofon scourge of bamboo is played in the group to escort dance or march in the festivities.

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Gong is the backbone of most of the music arena and it is used in almost every social occasion.

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PINASAKAN IS A KADAZA-DUSUN CUISINE WHICH MAINLY CONSISTS OF FISH COOKED AS AN APPETISER

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Mogunatip is a dance performed by the natives of the interior including the Kadazan from Tambunan, Kwijau Dusun from Keningau and several groups of Murut tribes. Magunatip is derived from the word "atip meaning 'to press between two surfaces.

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Sumazau Penampang is a traditional dance Kadazan tribe. This dance is usually performed during the festival and ritual spirit of rice (Bambaazon).

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Jun Weng
Ooi Ji Young
Nazim Kio
Wong Theng Fung

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inava is a recognizable traditional dish in Malaysia. its a salad type dish made from shark meat, or any raw fish, bitter gourd, ginger, vinegar, lime, bird’s eye peppers, red and green onions, and salt.