Sarawak Kuching - Chinese area Kuching is the capital of Sarawak state, Kuching means "cat". The legend tells that when the city was ceded by the Sultan of Brunei to the English adventurer James Brooke, he was impressed by the amount of cats that roamed. Several sculptures and statues adorn the city, and the fact is that in Kuching there is the only museum in the world totally dedicated to cats. National Museum Complex.These two women's clothes, the one the left completly made in beads, the right beads are instead applied on cloth, depicting traditional motifs and colors of the Iban tribe. Men use these same kind of draws for tattoo designs.