The kedayan women were the ones who traditionally applied the tattoos which were usually made from soot or charcoal and impregnated with special materials believed to make the tattoo more powerful, such as a piece of meteorite or animal bone.Women were adorned with their first tattoo as they pasted adulthood, although the most intricate designs were reserved for those of higher class and greater wealth.

in this culture, tattoo have more than a mere decorative purposes, they are symbols of spirit, status, success and wealth. 

It is believed that the Kedayan ethnicity took birth as a result of inter-marriages between the Javanese and the local Bruneian Malay. However, most researchers consider them indigenous to Borneo, having accepted Islam and influenced by Malay culture.

Aduk-Aduk is a ceremonial dance performed by the Kedayan people during holidays, especially at the end of the harvest season. Dancers wear traditional warrior's attire, in tengkolok, red belt and black clothing, and dance to the beat of silat, a Malay martial art. This dance is accompanied by percussion instruments, including drums and coconut shells.

Home building form Kedayan influenced by Brunei Malay community and local culture. Their home concept are usually ridge (side roofs). It is divided into three parts among (outdoors), the living room and kitchen. Kedayan’s traditional house is simple, wooden-pillared style of magnitude, bamboo floors and the roofs are made of palm leaves. In order to fasten the pole to the roof, no blade of nails used, all the turns and bonding are made by using cane or roots. Among the types of bonds used are ikatan angit, ikatan tindih, ikatan tapak pelanduk dan ikatan genggam ambuk.

 

The names of the floors and the roof of the house according to them are sangka(r) tiang belakang, sangka(r) tap balaai, suga-suga, kasau, tetaban, penyucuk, gelagaa(r) laas, bumbung dan atap. 

-Newly born children are believed to be susceptible to such supernatural entities as 'hantu' (ghosts) and 'orang halus' (spirit people). Kedayan parents observe a number of pantang larang (taboos) in connection with their newly born infants.

            

Formal education was very limited and only focused on Islamic education such as reading the Quran and Jawi writing which was held at the surau and cottages. Besides, Kedayan ethnic make education compulsory for children to be successful in future and not to be dependent on farming and fishing only. Children receive the basic education in government and private schools. 
The awareness of the importance of education for children also did not miss the Kedayan community to provide higher education to their children. The Kedayan community also pursues tertiary studies in local and abroad universities.

 

Symbols of Social Stratification.The only outward signs of social stratification are the prename titles of respect used in addressing or referring to nobles.

- Harvesting (ngatam) begins in March or early April and the harvested, unthrashed rice panicles are stored in small, stilted padi-barns (duung) close to the family house. 
- After harvest, each family joins its bilateral kinsmen locally to sponsor a major "annual feast" or makan tahun. Unrelated neighbors, or persons related only by marriage, may also join.
-  A small amount of inshore fishing is done near the coast at Kampungs Luak and Bungai, but everywhere else rice farming is the economic mainstay, both in terms of food production and as a source of cash income, through the sale of surplus padi .