After a total of 4.5 hours drive through the oil palm plantation road, logging road and river crossings from Miri city, we've finally reached our first research location in Tinjar, Long Atun Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved

The longhouse was build in 1970s to replace the dilapidated old longhouse. This was our first stop in the Tinjar. Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved

Kids enjoying their school break Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved

Patricia interviewing Mr. Kebing Avit, the headman of Long Atun. Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved

Adeline and her respondent Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved

Our briefing session with the community Photo Copyright © 2016 Raine Melissa Riman All Rights Reserved

Traditionally, Kenyah aristocrat women were tattooed with intricate tattoo patterns done mostly on the lower arm, hands and legs. The 65 years old Julia Lalong Nyala had hers when she was 20 years old and was tattooed by a Kejaman tattooist in Rumah Rasa, Batang Rajang for 8 consecutive days, when she followed her late father to visit her aunty who moved there. Photo Copyright © 2016 Raine Melissa Riman All Rights Reserved

Makeshift jetty fashioned out of a tree trunk with holes carved into it as stepping markers is a typical "log jetty" in most of the villages in Tinjar Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved

Longboats are the main transportation here Photo Copyright © 2016 Christine Horn All Rights Reserved