Dayak people

The Dayak are the indigenous, mainly non-Malay peoples of the interior of Borneo, comprising many groups such as the Iban, Ngaju, Kayan and Kenyah. Traditionally they lived in longhouse communities along the rivers, practising shifting rice cultivation and, in some groups, headhunting. Coastal Malay sultanates such as Brunei, Sambas and Banjar drew tribute and forest produce from them, and many converted to Christianity in the 19th and 20th centuries.