Gua Niah - Boat Shaped Coffins - Painted Cave - Niah National Park (Borneo)

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Gua Niah - Boat Shaped Coffins - Painted Cave - Niah National Park (Borneo)

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Boat shaped Coffins found in the Painted Cave - Niah National Park (Borneo)

The Boat Coffin was a funeral custom in ancient times. Usually a dead person was put into a coffin shaped like a boat. It was believed the dead would traverse the sea and return to their hometown.

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Date & GPS location
Photo taken on August 8, 2011
Taman Merbau, Bahagian Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia
GPS coordinates: 3.814316,113.782664 - Download KML file for Google Earth (and other mapping apps)
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