Lipupudsu is an architectural product in an ancient and a modern society. It is a Dusun's (an ethnic that inhabits North Borneo) term for a termite's pillar. Termites were known to human as the human animal or master architects because they are indeed architects as proven in the above pic. This pic was taken from a book "The Words You Need" by B Rudzka, J Channell, Y Putseys, P Ostyn, Macmillan Publishers Ltd 1981. Finding lipupudsu in North Borneo is an adventurous but enjoyable task. I would ask my fellow North Borneans, "What do you think of the significance of lipupudsu to our ancestors?"
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