Plate 141 (face pg. 268) 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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Hein (6, pp. 143-147), we willpass on to the next section. (g) Ot-Danum^ Ulu AjaVy and Siang (Kapuas river,tributaries).—Concerning these tribes Nieuwenhuis says butlittle (9, p. 452), merely noting that the men are first tatuedwith discs on the calf and in the hollow of the knee andlater over the arms, torso, and throat, whilst the womentatu the hands, knees, and shins. Two colours, red andblue, are used, and the designs are tatued free-hand, theinstrument employed being a piece of copper or brassabout four inches long and half an inch broad, with oneend bent down at a right angle and sharpened to a point.Sometimes thread is wound round the end of the instru-ment just above the point, to regulate the depth of itspenetration. Two specimens in the Leyden Museum arefigured by Ling Roth (7, p. 85). Hamer (5) says that theOt-Danum women are tatued down the shin to the tarsuswith two parallel lines, joined by numerous cross-lines, amodification of the Uma Tow design for the same part of
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Plate 141. XII DECORATIVE ART 269 the limb. On the thigh is tatued a design termed soewroe,said to resemble a neck ornament. A disc tatued on the calfof the leg is termed boentoer^ and from it to the heel runsa barbed line called ikoeh bajan, tail of the monitor lizard ;curiously enough, though this is the general name of thedesign, it is on the right leg also termed barareky on theleft dandoe tjatjah. Warriors are tatued on the elbow-joint with a dandoe tjatjah and a cross called sarapangmata andau. A Maloh who had lived for many years amongst thesepeople gave us the following information about their tatu :—There is with these people a great difference between thetatu of the high-class and that of the low-class individuals :amongst the former the designs are both extensive andcomplicated, too complicated for our informant to describewith any degree of accuracy, but they seem to be muchthe same as those described by Hamer. The low-classpeople have to be content with simpler designs;

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