Photos by Evangeline Majawat A good crowd turned up at Kampung Kipouvo last weekend to help Arkitrek celebrate it's official one year birthday. The event was organised by Kipouvo Community Homestay to feature a hazardous blend of sporting endeavour both on the pitch and around the rice wine vat. These are Kadazan people after all. On arriving at the village we passed the village football pitch where I watched with curiosity a crowd of locals gathered around the touchlines. I wonder what's going on I thought naively? Mel...

Photos by Sue Chong-Hartley, Text by Ian Hall “We need an ayam jantan bertaji, don’t forget the taji. Taji is important!” Sue instructed me. At first she had asked Wai Pak to help find the cockerel but as a conscientious Buddhist he didn’t want to be complicit in killing an animal. Normally the supply of sacrificial cockerels is not one of my professional services but I liked the idea of the story that I could tell afterward. The Taji is the heel spur or claw that you only find on cockerels; they are an important...