Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ves in all the islands, particularly in Java and Borneo.These nests are exported to China, where they are highly esteemedas table delicacies. The Semang and Sakai and other wild tribes collect gutta,camphor, resin, and tin, which they sell to traders. Wealthamong a great number of Indonesian tribes is reckoned in gongs;in Borneo in brass guns also, and particularly in old Chinesepots, which are greatly valued and regarded as heirlooms ; amongthe Igorot value is reckoned in unhusked rice. The habit ofchewing the areca-nut witli the Intel-leaf and lime may be said to beuniversal, though not so common among the negrito tribes;tobacco-smoking is similarly widespread, and the huge brass pipesof the Batak of Sumatra are especially characteristic (fig. 70. 1).Fire isi)roduced byfiint and steel (fig. 70. :i), )jy friction (sawing ortwirling), and, in the PliiU))pines, Borneo, Sumatra, and among some a.->/tf4: ,i;i).^tl,;i/.>Ul)iiil; E^Pf^*^ ii^ij-Hi- < --jy vV iV iv jl/v ni(f liLvJ J
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Fig. 74.—Primitive loom with single heddlo from the Igorotof the Philippines. INDONESIA 93 of the MaLays, by means of the fire-piston (see p. 14 and fig. 7, h).Cannibalism is reported of the Batak of Sumatra, and, ceremoniallyand for magical reasons only, of some of the Borneo tribes.The habitations show considerable variety of pattern locally,but one characteiistic scorns typical of the Indonesians—theconstruction of the dwelling on piles, which in Borneo sometimesattain a height of forty feet. Communal houses accommodatinga large number of families are found in parts of Sumatra, theMentawi Islands, Borneo, and parts of the Philippines (Mandaya).The Igorot are peculiar in Ixiilding stone huts of three kinds, oneas a council-hut, which is usuallyforbidden to the women, hutsfor married couples, and otherhuts for unmarried girls. Tree-dwellings are found among theSemang, Sakai, Kubu of Su-matra, and in the Philippines(Tinguianes) ; cave - dwellings,or more strictly rock-shelters,amo

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