. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. Fig. 71. was tuang buvong asu, pattern of dog without tail, and they render the exact juxtaposition of the serially repeated impressions very difficult,whilst the isolated male designs can be impressed on the skin in a more orless haphazard Plate 136. XII DECORATIVE ART 259 stated that a somewhat similar design was engraved bythem on sword blades. PI. 139, Fig. 4, is taken from atatu-block of uncertain origin, and the same name was alsoa
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. Fig. 71. was tuang buvong asu, pattern of dog without tail, and they render the exact juxtaposition of the serially repeated impressions very difficult,whilst the isolated male designs can be impressed on the skin in a more orless haphazard Plate 136. XII DECORATIVE ART 259 stated that a somewhat similar design was engraved bythem on sword blades. PI. 139, Fig. 4, is taken from atatu-block of uncertain origin, and the same name was alsoapplied to this by the Baram Kayans, though with somehesitation and uncertainty ; the hornbill motif is here quiteobvious. We have stated that an interlacing line design isgenerally employed for the back of the thigh; we figure,however, a remarkable exception from the Baloi river(PI. 140, Fig. 5); this is known as kalong kowit, hookpattern ; A is a representation of an antique bead, balalatlukuty B is known as kowit^ hooks. Between the two stripsof line design at the back of the thigh runs a narrow line ofuntatued skin, the supposed object of which has beendescribed above. The front and sides of the thigh in high-class women will be covered with three or more strips ofpattern such as are shown on PI. 138, Figs. 4 and 5 ;in the latter tushun tuva, dulang harok, ulu tinggang andbeliling bula
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