. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. the titles used are Klemantans and Muruts, too, present fewimportant differences except that the power of thechiefs is decidedly less, and the distinction of thesocial strata less clearly marked, and slaves are lessnumerous. The Sea Dayak social organisation isalso similar in most of its features. The mostimportant of the differences presented by it are thefollowing :—Polygamy is not allowed, and occursonly illicitly. Both parties are fi
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. the titles used are Klemantans and Muruts, too, present fewimportant differences except that the power of thechiefs is decidedly less, and the distinction of thesocial strata less clearly marked, and slaves are lessnumerous. The Sea Dayak social organisation isalso similar in most of its features. The mostimportant of the differences presented by it are thefollowing :—Polygamy is not allowed, and occursonly illicitly. Both parties are fined when the factsare discovered. Divorce is very common and ^ We append to this chapter a table showing the names and degrees ofkinship of all the inhabitants of one Kenyah long house. At the suggestion ofDr. W. H. R. Rivers, who has found this method of great value in disentangl-ing the complicated kinship systems of some Melanesian and Papuan and otherpeoples, we have collected similar information regarding Kayan, Sea Dayak,Klemantan, and Murut villages. But in no case does the table discover anytrace of any elaborate kinship A CORPSE IN A BARAWAN KLEMANTAN HOUSE.
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