. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. and scenes from thelife of the people, and they generally illustrate the particular form of occu-pation in which thehousehold is employedat the time, scenesfrom the padi fields, agroup of people weed-ing, the return of a war-party, the collection ofhoney, the capture of alarge fish. These draw-ings are invariably very crude ; their nature issufficiently indicated by PI. 128. There seem tobe no noteworthy differences in this respect betweenthe dif
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. and scenes from thelife of the people, and they generally illustrate the particular form of occu-pation in which thehousehold is employedat the time, scenesfrom the padi fields, agroup of people weed-ing, the return of a war-party, the collection ofhoney, the capture of alarge fish. These draw-ings are invariably very crude ; their nature issufficiently indicated by PI. 128. There seem tobe no noteworthy differences in this respect betweenthe different peoples. The Punans, having no houses and therefore nowalls on which to draw pictures, have little oppor-tunity to indulge any such tendency ; but we haveseen rude hunting scenes depicted by them on thewalls of shallow caves; the technique consisted inscratching away the soft rotted surface of the lime-stone rock to produce outlines of the figures Malanaus, who live in the large limestonecaves during the time of harvesting the edible nestsof the swift, sometimes make rude drawings withcharcoal on the walls of the Fig. 48.—Kayan Cradle ornamentedwith flat tops of cone shells. DECORATIVE ART 233 The weaving of decorativedesigns on cloth is almostconfined to the Sea account of the designswill be given below. Shell-work Shells (chiefly nassas andthe flat bases of cone-shells)are sometimes applied by theI ban women to decorate theirwoven coats, by Kalabits (inconcentric circles on theirsunhats), and more rarely byother tribes in the decorationof baskets (Fig. 48). represents a garment de-corated in this fashion byI ban women, and worn bythem when dancing with theheads of enemies in theirhands. The Decorative Designs The Kayans make use intheir decorative art of a largenumber of conventional de-signs. The principal appli-cations of these designs arein tatu, beadwork, the pro-duction of panels of wood forthe adornment of houses,tombs, bo
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