Lanoh people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (300) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Perak, Malaysia | |
| Languages | |
| Lanoh, Malay | |
| Religion | |
| Traditional religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Orang Asli, Semangs |
The Lanoh are a group classified as "Orang Asli" ("original people") by the government of Malaysia. They live in the Malay Peninsula and number around 300.
The Lanoh were once nomadic, but many of them now live in permanent villages in the Hulu Perak district of Perak State, near the Kelantan borders.
Following European contact, the Lanoh were hunter-gatherers using caves, many within the state of Perak, as shelters during hunting trips. Approximately 100 years ago, they made charcoal drawings on the walls of caves.
The majority of Lanoh live in the jungle as hunter-gatherer, but other Lanoh reside in urban areas where they are engaged in employment, largely on tapping rubber and oil palm estates. During the British Malaya, the Lanoh people were also regularly employed by British administrative officers as jungle rangers and porters, which suits to the lifestyle of the Lanoh people living in the jungle. Traditionally, the Lanoh people boil Ketum roots and drink it to treat diabetes, and boiling Ataulfo (mango) roots to reduce high-blood pressure.
The Lanoh believe that all living things, both plants and animals have their own spirit and with it influence the world. They believe 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.
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