No red robes but a loincloth, no reindeer but a giant crocodile, and Christmas trees made from banana leaves. FMTNews Christmas SantaClaus SantaDayak
A Santa Dayak with tribesman with Bornean tattoos and a Dayak people loincloth, next to a Christmas tree fashioned out of a banana tree.It’s Christmas Eve and Santa Claus will be riding through the cold mid-winter skies on his sleigh bringing gifts for children who have been good all year. Or, at least some of it.
But Kuching native, Joseph Romey Dures likes to imagine Santa a little differently. He sees a more tropical bringer of joy for every girl and boy. A Sarawak tribesman, in fact, a Dayak Father Christmas. The 37-year-old’s imagination beautifully translates onto paper, as he moonlights as a cartoonist after his day job as a commercial banker in Kuala Lumpur.Joseph Romey Dures and wife Catriona Su-Yin Evan-Cook draw local Christmas themes, integrating Sarawakian culture.
One of them suggested that he draw a “Santa Dayak”, which he did. People liked it, so he started drawing more Dayak Christmas themes. A mix of the old and the new–Joseph Romey Dures’ Dayak tribes design on traditional Christmas symbols.
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