. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. the rooms and pre-paring dinner. This meal consists of boiled ricewith perhaps a piece of fish, pork, or fowl, and,like breakfast and supper, is eaten in the privaterooms. As soon as dinner is over the pounding oi\h^padibegins (Frontispiece, Vol. II.). Each mortar usuallyconsists of a massive log of timber roughly shaped,and having sunk in its upper surface, which is alittle hollowed, a pit about five inches in diameterand nine inches in depth. Into t
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. the rooms and pre-paring dinner. This meal consists of boiled ricewith perhaps a piece of fish, pork, or fowl, and,like breakfast and supper, is eaten in the privaterooms. As soon as dinner is over the pounding oi\h^padibegins (Frontispiece, Vol. II.). Each mortar usuallyconsists of a massive log of timber roughly shaped,and having sunk in its upper surface, which is alittle hollowed, a pit about five inches in diameterand nine inches in depth. Into this pit about aquarter of a bushel of padi is put. Two womenstand on the mortar facing one another on eitherside of the pit, each holding by the middle a largewooden pestle. This is a solid bar of hardwoodabout seven feet long, about two inches in diameterin the middle third, and some three or four inchesin diameter in the rest of its length. The twoends are rounded and polished by use. Eachwoman raises her pestle to the full height of herreach, and brings it smartly down upon the grain inthe pit, the two women striking alternately with a. Plate 63. ELDERLY KAVAN WOMAN ASCENDING THE HOUSE-LADDER WITH BASKETFUL OF \\V\TER VESSELS. DAILY LIFE 119 regular rhythm. As each one lifts her pestle, shedeftly sweeps back into the pit with her foot thegrain scattered by her stroke. After pounding the padi for some minutes with-out interruption, one woman takes a winnowing pan,a mat made in the shape of an English housemaidsdustpan, but rather larger than this article, andreceives in it the pounded grain which the otherthrows out of the pit with her foot. Both women then kneel upon a large mat laidbeside the mortar ; the one holding the winnowingpan keeps throwing the grain into the air with amovement which causes the heavier grain to fall tothe back of the pan, while the chaff and dust isthrown forward on to the mat. Her companionseparates the rice dust from the chaff by sifting itthrough
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