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For the people of Kalimantan, Sumpit are the traditional weapons are often used for hunting and its effectiveness as a tool to hunt not least with modern weapons, because the distance tembaknya can reach 200 meters.


In the old days chopsticks are used as a hunting weapon kalimantan Dayak people, and as a weapon of war when the colonial era in kalimantan. Where Sumpit made ​​of wood and iron form resembling a perforated straight pipe inside, the outside diameter of about 3 cm, the cavity diameter of about 0.75 cm and a length of about 200 cm and also have the cutting edge, usually mixed with poison bullets chopsticks at one end so that the victim can die instantly.
There are two types of bullets Sumpit. The first type is made of clay that make up a state of semi-moist form of small balls in accordance with an aperture of the barrel, used for close range is to hunt small animals. The second bullet is called damek or lahes (in the Dayak language), made ​​of bamboo slats that pointed like an arrow and lute pieces of wood mounted to the back of the target set. Sumpit bullets are usually stored in bamboo tubes filled with liquid "poison" wild animal or sap of a tree, used for hunting larger animals or war. Sumpit are sometimes part of the stem surface is decorated with relief carvings or ornament with a pattern typical of Dayak.
 

Now, Sumpit have been modified where the edges are no longer cutting edge but the metal Sumpit and content is no longer poisoned, and developed into a sport.

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