Sea Gypsies

Sea Gypsies may refer to:

In ethnography, it can refer to any of several groups in southeast Asia:

  • Bajau, an indigenous ethnic group residing in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, and parts of Sarawak, sometimes including the people who speak Makassar, and Bugis.
  • Moken, also known as the Selung, Salone or Chalome and Chao Ley or Chao nam, an Austronesian ethnic group with about 2,000 to 3,000 members who maintain a nomadic, sea-based culture.
  • Orang Laut, a group of Malay people living in the Riau Islands of Indonesia.
  • Tanka people, a Han ethnic sub-group that lives on boats in Southern China.
  • Urak Lawoi, coastal dwellers of Thailand.

In film, it can refer to:

  • The Sea Gypsies (1978 film), starring Robert Logan and Heather Rattray.

Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or gypsies:

    Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    My mother said that I never should
    Play with the gypsies in the wood,
    —Unknown. Gypsies in the Wood (l. 1–2)