Handbook to the ethnographical collections . of the deceased laid in or on the grave ; often. Fig. 83. -War-coat of bark covered with , Borneo. the site of the latter is marked with a small shelter (Jakun,Sumatra, Celebes, Aeta). Important men among the Iban andKenyah-Kayan tribes are laid in mortuary chambers on jnles ;while jars are used as coffins by the Kelamantan and some of theSouth Borneo tribes. Cremation is practised by the latter, and bythe Hindus of Java in former times. Slavery as an institutiondoes not exist to any extent; deljtor bondsmen are found in Javaan
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . of the deceased laid in or on the grave ; often. Fig. 83. -War-coat of bark covered with , Borneo. the site of the latter is marked with a small shelter (Jakun,Sumatra, Celebes, Aeta). Important men among the Iban andKenyah-Kayan tribes are laid in mortuary chambers on jnles ;while jars are used as coffins by the Kelamantan and some of theSouth Borneo tribes. Cremation is practised by the latter, and bythe Hindus of Java in former times. Slavery as an institutiondoes not exist to any extent; deljtor bondsmen are found in Javaand Borneo, and in the latter island (in the south) two classesof so-called slaves, indoor and outdoor, of whom the latter occupythe sui)erior pDsition. As regards amusements, the institution which claims firstmention is the Javanese Wayang. This is a puppet-show, andis divided into three classes: the Wayang purwa, the Wayang 102 ASIA gedog, and the Wayang- klitik. The first deals with the earliestperiod of Javanese and Hindu mythological history, the last withthe latest period of history d
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