Sama Bajau History
The boat-dwelling Sama-Bajau see themselves as non-aggressive people. A variety of local legends traces the original dispersal of the Bajau to the loss or abduction of a princess a mythic event variously associated with the different early sultanates of the region. Sama Bajau Wikipedia Bajau People Borneo Sama Sama-Bajau were first recorded by European explorers in 1521 by Antonio Pigafetta of the Magellan-Elcano expedition in what is now the present-day Zamboanga Peninsula. Sama bajau history . They kept close to the shore by erecting houses on stilts and travelled using lepa handmade boats which many lived in. BAJAU HISTORY TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE Moderator. Bajau - History and Cultural Relations. The Sama originally inhabited the islands and coastal areas between the island of Mindanao and the Sulu Islands. They speak as many as seven different mother-tongue languages which belong to what is known as the Sama-Bajau subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian languag...