Lanoh

The Lanoh are one of the groups classified as "Orang Asli" ("original people") by the government of Malaysia. They live in the Malacca Peninsula and number around 300.

The Lanoh used to be nomads, but many of them now live in permanent villages in the Hulu Perak district of Perak State.

After of European contact, the Lanoh were hunter-gatherers. So, they used the caves as shelters during hunting trips. Some of these caves is in the state of Perak. Also, we know that about 100 years old ago, like other tribal groups, they made charcoal drawings on the walls of caves.

Still today, the majority of Lanoh live in the jungle, but there also are some Lanoh that resident in urban areas and they work in both hourly-waged and salaried jobs - Most of them work on rubber and oil palm estates. The Lanoh believe that all living things, both plants and animals have their own spirit and with it influence the world. People should be linked symbiotically with the other animals and plants. The belief in the spirits of living beings to make them afraid of the spirits of dead people (especially their ancestors) and of the spirits of the game animals.

In fact, there is a custom that is in quality of law in his village which is to hunt the animals trying not to cause to them any pain.

See also

• Lanoh language
• Semang
• Mani people

External links

• The Negrito of Malaysia
• The Negrito of Thailand (includes information about Negritos of Malaysia)