MOHAMED Nor bin Ismail
Communities of Singapore (Part 3),
Accession Number 000633
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 4
Total Reels
- Mohd Yussoff Ahmad
Interviewer
- 01:54:31
Total Running Time
- Malay
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 4
Metadata
- 2 Feb 1986
Recording Date
- 00:29:29
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Personal background. Parents from Riau, Indonesia. Migrated and opened island in 1918. People from Sulawesi migrated to Singapore. Originally built huts along beach. Later built kampung houses. Grandfather well-known as Malay bomoh (village medicine man). View of island from Singapore is like a crocodile with opened mouth, even like dragon. Various tales about dragon.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 4
Metadata
- 2 Feb 1986
Recording Date
- 00:29:37
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Islanders worked as fishermen. Few worked in Singapore. Good catch during fishing season, about 3 - 4 months annually. Big Indian almond tree believed to be planted by ancestors. Tree still exists. Houses now demolished. Islanders migrated to Singapore. But graveyard remains. Encouraged former islanders to visit island. Islanders, ever attacked by pirates but failed.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 4
Metadata
- 2 Feb 1986
Recording Date
- 00:29:28
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Rumours of pirates' impending attack spread by word of mouth. Pirates' main target were Chinese shops. How they used hypnosis and parangs to rob during 1930s. Later they used home-made explosives (petrol in a bottle). Arms used by Pulau Sudong islanders. His encounter with robbers. Batin and village headman (penghulu); how they were chosen. Different factions of islanders. Islanders' leisure pastimes. Singapore's original inhabitants.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 4
Metadata
- 2 Feb 1986
Recording Date
- 00:25:57
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Pulau Sudong islanders' supernatural beliefs and practices with regard to sea and land spirits. Islanders' gotong-royang spirit. Where Malays lived before Raffles came. Left Pulau Sudong in 1979 for Tanah Besar. His feelings about leaving and why he preferred to live on Pulau Sudong. How islanders maintain their ties on mainland Singapore.
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