. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. Fig. 30.—Iban war-coat and war-cap covered with fish scales ;mail of this kind is becoming rare. heads; they make much of those who bring themhome, and sometimes a girl will taunt her suitor bysaying that he has not been brave enough to take. ^ WAR 187 a head ; and in some cases of murder by Sea Dayaks,the murderer has no doubt been egged on in thisway. Nevertheless, we repeat that there is no groundfor the oft-reprinted assertion that the taking of a
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. Fig. 30.—Iban war-coat and war-cap covered with fish scales ;mail of this kind is becoming rare. heads; they make much of those who bring themhome, and sometimes a girl will taunt her suitor bysaying that he has not been brave enough to take. ^ WAR 187 a head ; and in some cases of murder by Sea Dayaks,the murderer has no doubt been egged on in thisway. Nevertheless, we repeat that there is no groundfor the oft-reprinted assertion that the taking of ahead is a necessary prelude to marriage/ Likeother tribesmen I bans do not bring home the headsof their companions who have fallen in battle ; butwhile men of other tribes are content to drag thecorpses of their fallen friends into some obscure spotand to cover them with branches, Ibans frequentlycut off the heads and bury them at a distance fromthe scene of battle, in order to prevent their beingtaken by the enemy. The Ibans use a rather greater variety of weaponsthan the Kayans, in that they have spears whoseblades bear barbs which prevent the withdrawal ofthe blade from the body of the enemy without greatviolence. The Klemantan tribes are on the whole far lesswarlike than Kayans, Kenyahs, and Ibans. Theiroffensive warfare is usually on a small scale, andis undertaken primar
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