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Plate 104 (face pg. 184) 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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by the government; but when contingents from allthe loyal communities of a large district eagerlyoffer their services, it is difficult to deny any ofthem permission to take part. Kenyahs andKayans will co-operate harmoniously, and alsoKlemantans; but the former distrust the SeaDayaks and will not join forces with any largenumber of them. The modes of warfare of the other tribes aresimilar in most respects to that of the Kayansdescribed above; but some peculiarities are worthyof note. Kenyah warfare is very similar to Kayan, savein so far as their more impetuous temper renderstheir tactics more dashing. While the Kayansendeavour to make as many captives as possible,the Kenyahs attach little value to them. WhileKayans never attack communities of their owntribe, such * civil war is not unknown among theKenyahs, whose tribal cohesion is less intimate inmany respects. From these two differences itresults that the Kenyah war-parties are generallysmaller than those of the Kayans, more quick-
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w< H o CO HDO O c/2 WAR 185 moving, and more prone to attack groups of theenemy encountered on farms or on the river. Likethe I bans, the Kenyahs make peace more readilythan the Kayans, who nurse their grievances andseek redress after long intervals of time. The I bans conduct their warfare less systematic-ally, and with far less discipline than the Kayansand Kenyahs. An attack upon a house or village byIbans is usually made in very large force ; the partyis more of the nature of a rabble than of an army;each man acts independently. They seek aboveall things to take heads, to which they attach anextravagant value, unlike the Kayans and Kenyahswho seek heads primarily for the service of theirfuneral rites ; and they not infrequently attack ahouse and kill a large number of its inmates in aperfectly wanton manner, and for no other motivethat the desire to obtain heads. This passion forheads leads them sometimes into acts of grosstreachery and brutality. The Ibans being greatwanderers

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