. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. t dress inbark-cloth, and are confined to the house until the tatu iscompleted; should any of the male members be travellingin other parts of the island tatu cannot be commenceduntil they return. Amongst the Uma Tow (or LepuTau) the daughter of a chief must be tatued before anyof the other females of the house ; should the chiefsdaughter (or daughters) die before she has been tatued, allthe other women of the house are debarred from this em-bellishmen
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. t dress inbark-cloth, and are confined to the house until the tatu iscompleted; should any of the male members be travellingin other parts of the island tatu cannot be commenceduntil they return. Amongst the Uma Tow (or LepuTau) the daughter of a chief must be tatued before anyof the other females of the house ; should the chiefsdaughter (or daughters) die before she has been tatued, allthe other women of the house are debarred from this em-bellishment (Nieuwenhuis [9, pp. 453, 454]). Nieuwenhuis, in his great work on Borneo, which wehave cited so often, gives a good account of the tatu of theLong Glat. According to this authority, girls when onlyeight years old have the backs of the fingers tatued, at thecommencement of menstruation the tatu of the fingers iscompleted, and in the course of the following year the tatuis carried over the backs of the hand to the wrist; the feetare tatued synchronously with the hands. At the age ofeighteen to twenty the front of the thigh is tatued, and. Plate 138. xn DECORATIVE ART 263 later on in life the back of the thigh ; unlike the Kayansit is not necessary that the tatu of the thighs should befinished before child-bearing. A Long Glat woman oneach day that she is tatued must kill a black fowl as foodfor the artist. They believe that after death the completelytatued women will be allowed to bathe in the mythicalriver Telang Julan, and that consequently they will be ableto pick up the pearls that are found in its bed ; incompletelytatued women can only stand on the river bank, whilst theuntatued will not be allowed to approach its shores at belief appears to be universal amongst the Kenyah-Klemantan of the Upper Mahakam and Batang PL 86 of Nieuwenhuis book [9] is figured the thightatu of a Long Glat woman ; the front of the thigh isoccupied with two rows of the hornbill
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