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Plate 133 (face pg. 250) from C.Hose / W.McDougall (1912): The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.
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Title: The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hose, Charles, 1863-1929 McDougall, William, 1871-1938 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropometry
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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representations of human figures or as silongyfaces, and they are evidently anthropomorphic derivatives.The triangles on the carpal knuckles are termed songirang, shoots of bamboo, and the zig-zag lines are ikor^lines. ^ In ancient days when a great Kayan or Klemantan chief built a newhouse, the first post of it was driven through the body of a slave ; this sacrificeto a tutelary deity is no longer offered, but a human figure is frequently carvedon the post of a house and may be a relic of the old custom ; the figure iscalled tegulun. Sea Dayak anthropomorphs are termed engkramba andappear in cloths and bead-work designs, also in carvings on boundary marks,witch-doctors baskets, etc.
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Plate 133. TATU PATTERNS ON THIGHS OF KAYAN WOMEN. DECORATIVE ART 251 Kayan women are tatued in complicated serial ^ designsover the whole forearm, the backs of the hands, over thewhole of the thighs and to below the knees, and on themetatarsal surfaces of the feet. The tatuing of a Kayangirl is a serious operation, not only because of the consider-able amount of pain caused, but also on account of theelaborate ceremonial attached to this form of body orna-mentation. The process is a long one, lasting sometimesas much as four years, since only a small piece can be doneat a sitting, and several long intervals elapse between thevarious stages of the work. A girl when about ten yearsold will probably have had her fingers and the upper part

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