What is in a Name?

• Dr H Andi Jamaro Dulung is a renowned person in Indonesia. He was chairman of the Youth Movement Anshor PP mengemban. He is a member of the House of Representatives Commission. Dr Dulung is known as

Masters in Psychology Unpad Bandung
S3 Teknologi Pendidikan Universitas Negeri Jakarta S3 Technology Education State University of Jakarta

Dulong is the Name of a Ceremonial Food Bowl

This ceremonial food bowl is 14 inches long and is used by the Toraja people, Sulawesi Isl, Indonesia.

In the funerary feasts the Torajan people use this bowl.

Dulong holds vegetables or meats and receives graceful attention from the people.

Dulung is the Name of a Boat Associated with Islam in Indonesia

Dulung  is a boat. You are sure to notice its unusual and specific shape. Offerings of ‘dihaturkan’ are placed on this boat. The frontal projection of the boat is trisected with one composite center and there are two forks to the right and to the left. The ‘bermaksudkan’ has seven parts and reminds us the number of days and points to the ‘progress of human life from the day onwards’.

Yellow, green and red are the colors used on the body of the boat. Yellow has been used at the top of the raised-up frontal projection. This has been done in order to show honor and this is the traditional culture.  ‘Berwana’ yellow is only in one direction. This is to suggest that Allah is one and he is almighty and he has the supreme authority in the universe as he is the creator. The boat has five pillars and these are to indicate prayer times which are five in the Islamic religion.
Thus, different parts of the boat have associated with the said religion symbolically.

Dulang Paglaum is the Name of a Project to Feed the Children in the Philippines

 This project aims to feed malnourished and starving children in the district of Jaro, Iloilo City, the Philippines. This is a benevolent exercise of Luzette Villareal. She is an artist and she belongs to Jaro.

(From the Website of Luzette Villareal)

Dulang Stands for ‘low table’ in the Phillipines

Deedee has been a prolific freelancer for more than twenty years. It is interesting to note what she has left in her blogs for us. Let us see what she has written while inviting everyone to her blogs —

 ‘dulang is a Tagalog word for “low table” that is normally used for dining purposes.’

Deedee uses the dulang as a centerpiece in her residence and for conversations of life. On her desire we have been privileged to sit around the dulang in her residence in Manila (capital of the Phillipines) if we get occasions and in her blog always as a surfer of the internet.

Dulung  in China

Dulung is the name of a community in China. It is a community of nearly 6000 people. They live mainly in the valleys along the banks of the river Dulung ( Dulung stands for ‘little dragon’) in the western part of Yunnan Province where Tibet and Myanmar are closer too. Some more people habitat on the Burmese side of the Dandanglika Mountains. Dulung is the language of this people and they use the script named Han. Women generally tattoo their faces. They believe that by this way the evil spirits may be warded off. But the Dulung women have been changing themselves as they have chanced to come in contact with the rapidly changing urban society of the modern days.

Still one may experience the primitive mode of their life in some places. This is reflected by the nature of hunting, fishing and food-gathering means of sustenance, forest-dependence, tight clan relationship, chicken-sacrifice to the spirits by the ritual specialist called shamam and slaughtering of an ox at Dulung New Year.

Dulung people have been in a tremendous conflict between the past and the present although their mode of expression is not noisy and with least of the demonstrative effect.

Tattoos in the Face of the Dulong Women

Women with tattooed faces in the Dulong River Valley may still be noticed although their number may be less than 60 only. In July 2003, Shen Xingshi, a photographer from E Anhui Province , has recorded their lives on

Dong Chunlian

Dong Chunlian is a woman with facial tattoos. She has not preferred remaining tied to the valley. She has responded to the call of the outside world and has been successful to draw their attention to Dulung. She has attended the Ethnic Expo, Taiwan, 2000 and also visited Japan.

Dulung is the Name of a Newspaper

 The following three incomplete lines are from (http://www.ace.lu.se/images/Syd_och_sydostasienstudier/working_papers/mason):

‘The fact that Javanese language legal sources as stone and copperplate inscriptions and manuscripts written on European, Chinese and native paper (Dulong) are found spread from Lumpang, South Sumatra….’                  (made bold and italicized by the author)

Conclusion

Linguists may help us how this little word DULUNG has acquired such astonishing varieties in a stretch of a large landmass in the eastern hemisphere and even in France as an exception. But the root might have been somewhere in the tribal people’s tradition and treasure.