Eighteen-year-old Rowena Awa Ngumbang (C), winner of Miss Fair and Lovely Ethnic Beauty contest, poses with first runner-up Sophia James (R), 24, and second runner-up Duling Musit, 23, after the prize presentation at the Sarawak Cultural Village in Damai about 35 kilometers from Kuching, in the east Malaysian state of Sarawak May 22. Gawai Dayak festival, a thanksgiving for bountiful harvest is celebrated on June 1 every year by the Dayak community which formed almost half of Sarawak's 1.9 million population.

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