. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. thnatural group distinct from the other two fifth small group of designs is carved in the formof fretwork. We propose to say a few words aboutthe designs of each of these five groups. (i) The designs of the first group are the mostnumerous and most widely applied. A large pro-portion of them obviously are conventionalisedderivatives from animal forms. Of these animalforms the human figure, the dog, and the prawnhave been the originals of the
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. thnatural group distinct from the other two fifth small group of designs is carved in the formof fretwork. We propose to say a few words aboutthe designs of each of these five groups. (i) The designs of the first group are the mostnumerous and most widely applied. A large pro-portion of them obviously are conventionalisedderivatives from animal forms. Of these animalforms the human figure, the dog, and the prawnhave been the originals of the largest number ofpatterns ; the macaque monkey and the large lizard(Varanus) are also traceable. Some designsvaguely suggest a derivation from some animalform, but cannot confidently be assigned to any oneorigin. A few seemed to be derived from vegetableforms; while some few, for example the hook-pattern, seem to be derived from no animal orvegetable form. The hook-pattern seems to besymbolical of conjunction and acquisition in variousspheres. Of all the designs the derivatives from or variantsof the dog are the most numerous and the most.
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