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Egrang

Also known as Ingkling · bamboo stilt race

Egrang: photograph by Djuli Pamungkas
Photo: Djuli Pamungkas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Players walk on tall bamboo stilts across uneven ground, racing and sometimes bumping to unbalance rivals.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Indonesia, Malaysia.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Southeast Asia and the Islands.

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