Sumpit (Weapon)

Sumpit or Sumpitan / Chopsticks or blowpipe (Central Kalimantan language: Sipet) is a weapon used for hunting as well as in open combat or as a secret weapon to murder secretly. The use of chopsticks is by blowing.

In terms of its use chopsticks or Sipet has a distinct advantage because it can be used as long-range weapons and does not destroy nature for manufacturing natural ingredients. And one of the advantages of this Sipet chopsticks or accuracy of fire that can reach 200 meters.

History

Many indigenous peoples have chopsticks for example in Indonesia Dayak tribes and indigenous tribes in South America. Chopsticks are usually shaped tube that allows the small arrow shot into the target shot. In Japan, Chopsticks called Fukiya used samurai used as a weapon to kill the enemies that children chopsticks poisoned with toxins from pufferfish.

During the colonial period in Borneo yore, Dutch soldiers armed with rifles with cutting-edge technology at the time, while the Dayak warriors generally only rely on chopsticks. However, Dutch soldiers are far more afraid that the child chopsticks rather than Dayak warriors hit by a bullet. Which makes the colonizers trepidation was the son chopsticks are toxic. Before leaving for the battlefield, Dayak warriors smearing the child's eyes chopsticks with wormwood tree or tree sap iren. In silence, they shot an action called damek chopsticks.

Structure

Traditional chopsticks comprise bamboo or wooden tube length of 1-3 m, chopsticks are equipped with chopsticks child with a round shape approximately less than 1 cm in diameter. Child chopsticks (damek) can be made of bamboo which one end is shaped like a cone made of lightweight wood mass (wood Pelawi). It serves so that children can be shot with chopsticks straight or as a counterweight when separated from the reed. While the other end is pointed and usually given a very deadly poison game. Poison made from the sap of forest vegetation and to date there is still no antidote. Chopsticks are used by blowing. Whether or not strong penyumpit breath will determine the extent of child spacing chopsticks can be bolted to the target.

The base of chopsticks are usually larger and in part this is then blown child chopsticks inserted. Buluh between chopsticks and chopsticks child has a high dependence (mutual support). Although reed nice but children chopsticks made recklessly, the results were also unsatisfactory, and vice versa. This means that each play a central role both in the accuracy of the targets / prey although also breath penyumpit proficiency is also a very important role here.

To reach the right target and strong breathable, long chopsticks height should suit the person using it, the most important part of the blowpipe, in addition to rods chopsticks, namely bullets or children chopsticks called damek. Children chopsticks tapered tip, was the rear base there is a kind of cork and similar branches of trees so that the child chopsticks current drift toward the target. Toxins damek by Dayaks Lundayeh called parir. Very deadly poison is a conglomeration of various sap of trees, herbs and can be animals such as snakes and scorpions.

As Sports

Chopsticks function is no longer to hunt or to war, but raced in sports area. Being a sports numbers calculated in every match held in the area. Sports chopsticks are not much different from other sports such as sport or sport shooting arrows. Typically for a target made of cardboard or paper circle. The contestants are vying for the circle that has been created by a predetermined distance by the race committee. Japanese chopsticks sport fostered by the International Fukiyado Association (IFA).

Manufacture

In the process of making chopsticks or Sipet done in two ways, the first skilled hands of the creator. The second way, by using the power of nature by harnessing the power of water flow cascade mill made into a kind of rice pounder. The selling price of chopsticks or Sipet determined by customary law, which amounted to jipen Ije or due halamaung taheta. According to the trust Dayak Sipet chopsticks or should not be used to kill a fellow. Chopsticks or Sipet only be used for everyday purposes, such as hunting. Sipet abstinence is not allowed or trampled let alone cut with machetes because if it is done in contravention of customary law, which could lead to the perpetrators will be prosecuted in a customary meeting.