A Tribute For My Ancestry

My maternal great grandparents

Wonder how many heirloom did it take to get this photo taken back then? Staring at this newfound bit of treasure got me into puzzles of mind. How old are they when this moment was frozen? I can see that my great grandmother (I would prefer to refer her by "Tidi"; in Dusun dialect means mother) is even not into her full puberty yet cause her small breast is obvious, and she's already married? Was she getting her period already when she surrendered herself to a matrimony? Oh, and that is how a Tagahas costume should look like. I remember now how Taki describe it - long sleeve and knee length sarong. It is indeed different from Kadazan costume we imitate these days. Yeah, this is the real costume of Tagahas. But I just cannot deny that I do resemble from my Tidi's look - those round sharp eyes and pointed mouth. She is also once a priestess who live long enough to see her great grandchildren including me. Yea...it is coming back to my memory now, no wonder she used to stare at me without a wink, I really resemble like her, she must be very proud. If only I was older at those time so I can ask her to teach me to do charms. You cannot say I am superstitous but hey..these days there are so many beast masked as a human, only magic should banish them. She was a priestess. And is that why she got to learn black magic, because of her facial feature?