Interpretation environment (Orang Asli Crafts Museum)

Orang Asli Crafts Museum Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia ...

• Orang Asli Museum near National Museum shows the preserved traditions ,culture ,customs, and history of specific tribe.Orang Asli tribe that lived in the olden days in Malaysia are no more. 
• This is hidden treasure as their things are preserved and presented nicely to the present world,which other vice we cannot see for ourselves ,what they were like.
• Orang Asli Museum is a hidden gem.
• It show many things that are made from rattan.

What is orang Asli ?? 

• As a collective, the term Orang Asli can be transliterated as original peoples,or first peoples. The word orang means people and the term asli comes from the Arabic word asali, meaning original, well-born, or aristocratic.
• The Orang Asli of Malay Peninsula (or West Malaysia) are divided into a great number of different tribal groups,some of which have very little contact with each other
• Differences in languages and physical appearances, all Orang Asli tribes share one thing in common, which is that they are the descendants of the earliest known inhabitants who occupied the Malay Peninsula

This is the example of Orang Asli's Mask.

The other type of mask with different characters and spirits.

• Orang Asli Craft Museum in Kuala Lumpur showcases the arts and handicrafts of the Orang Asli people, the aboriginal communities who dwell mostly in rural areas across the Malaysian Peninsula.
• The museum explains how there are 18 different tribes of Orang Asli divided into 3 main groups, the Negrito, the Senai and the Proto Malay.

• These beautifully carved statues were created by the Mah Meri tribe. The one of the left is made from cengal wood and is titled ‘King of the Apes’ and the one on the right is made from nyirih batu wood and is named ‘The Spirit of Lanjut’. 

• In addition to statues and masks there are small Sepili figures used in the traditional medicine system of the Jah Hut, blowpipes and ornate bamboo containers for holding blowpipe darts, hunting and fishing traps, musical instruments, native clothing, pouches and containers made from screw pine, rattan baskets and trays, palm leaf ornaments and spiritual decorations and even coffins made from bamboo.

Here is the example brochure of this museum :

Video promotion of Orang Asli Museum Craft :

• Its open on Monday- Sunday (9am until 6pm)
• It is located in Orang Asli Crafts Museum ,Jabatan Muzium Malaysia,Jalan Damansara,50566 Kuala Lumpur .
• Ticket Prices : Malaysian citizens (RM2 for adult ,RM1 for seniors and disabled,children age 12 and below are free) and Non-nationality (RM5 for adult ,RM2 for children age 6-12 and free for below age 6)
• You can contact 03-22826255 for more info . 

References :

https://www.tripadvisor.com.my/Attraction_Review-g298570-d4444138-Reviews-Orang_Asli_Craft_Museum-Kuala_Lumpur_Wilayah_Persekutuan.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orang-asli

https://www.malaysia-traveller.com/Orang-Asli-Craft-Museum.html