. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. XI HANDICRAFTS 217 on loops, and weights are hung upon the muzzleend until, on sighting through the bore, only a halfcircle of daylight is visible—this beingthe degree of curvature of the boredesired. The wood is then heatedwith torches, and on cooling retains thecurvature thus impressed on it. It only remains to whittle down therough surface to a smooth cylinderslightly tapering towards the muzzle(PI. 114), to polish the pipe inside and Ii Fig. 42.—K
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. XI HANDICRAFTS 217 on loops, and weights are hung upon the muzzleend until, on sighting through the bore, only a halfcircle of daylight is visible—this beingthe degree of curvature of the boredesired. The wood is then heatedwith torches, and on cooling retains thecurvature thus impressed on it. It only remains to whittle down therough surface to a smooth cylinderslightly tapering towards the muzzle(PI. 114), to polish the pipe inside and Ii Fig. 42.—Kay an Gaugeused in making Pith-cone for Fig. 43.—Kayan Wooden Plate forworking up tpoh poison for darts. out, to lash on the spear-blade to the muzzle endwith strips of rattan, and to attach a small woodensight to the muzzle end opposite the polishing of the bore is effected by working to 2i8 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. and fro within it a long piece of closely fittingrattan ; that of the outer surface, by rubbing it firstwith the skin of a stingray (which, although amarine fish, sometimes ascends to the upper reachesof the rivers), and afterwards with the leaf (emplas)which is the local substitute for emery paper. The shaft of the poisoned dart is made from thewood of the nibong and wild sago palms. It isabout nine inches in length and one-sixteenth toone-eighth of an inch in diameter (PI. 115). On toone end of this is fitted a small tapering cylinderof tough pith, about one inch in length, its greatestdiameter at its butt end being exactly equal to thebore of the pipe. The pith is shaved to therequired
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