Pinakol is a kind of handicraft from Kudat Rungus, North North Borneo. It is a craft beads in which there are about four motif representing a legend. Four patterns are:
1. Tiningulun, which means "man."
2. Inompuling, which means shield.
3. Tinugarang, which is highly poisonous animal mystical.
4. Vinusak, which means a flower antidote.
According to legend, once upon a time, there He was a hero called "Tiningulun," he was reverting carrying a shield called "Inompuling / Tinompuling." On the way, he has met with a very venomous beast named "Tinugarang". In Liwan dialect, there is an animal called "Tugarang," in Malay means "bengkarung," a dialect term Tinugarang in Liwan is also a verb meaning "to tugarang," refers to something that is transformed.
Back to the story, after the fight with the beast, he managed to kill him, but poisonous animals (Tinugarang) managed to bite the hero's (Tiningulun). Then, in pain, he walked and the way that he had found a kind of flower named "Vinusak" (Husak in Liwan dialect means flower). This Vinusak reliable a antidote, the hero took this interest can then use it to treat bites Tinugarang.
From this story has been an inspiration Rungus in making handicraft motif in beads, thus perpetuating the legend Tiningulun beads on a necklace, which are often worn by men Rungus.
