. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. ous modification ofthis eye is seen in another Sea Dayak scorpion designfigured by E. B. Haddon [4, Fig. 19]. Furness [3, p. 142]figures a couple of scorpion designs, but neither are quiteas debased as that which we figure here. Furness alsofigures a scroll design, not unlike a Bakatan design, tatuedon the forearm, and termed taia gasieng^ the thread of thespinning wheel; a similar one figured by Ling Roth [7, 1 Mr. E. B. Haddon (4, p. 124) writes : *
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. ous modification ofthis eye is seen in another Sea Dayak scorpion designfigured by E. B. Haddon [4, Fig. 19]. Furness [3, p. 142]figures a couple of scorpion designs, but neither are quiteas debased as that which we figure here. Furness alsofigures a scroll design, not unlike a Bakatan design, tatuedon the forearm, and termed taia gasieng^ the thread of thespinning wheel; a similar one figured by Ling Roth [7, 1 Mr. E. B. Haddon (4, p. 124) writes : * The tattoo design used by theKayans and Kenyahs . . has been copied and adopted by the Ibans in thesame way as the Kalamantans have done, the main difference being, thatthe Ibans call the design a scorpion. For this reason the pattern tends tobecome more and more like the scorpion. ... The italics are ours. Isnot this putting the cart before the horse? It is only when the designresembles a scorpion that the term scorpion is applied to it; all other modifi-cations, even though tending towards the scorpion, are called dog, prawn, 276 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. p. 88] is termed trong, the ^%% plant. On the breast andshoulders some forms of rosette or star design are tatued inconsiderable profusion ; they are known variously asbunga trough the ^%% plant flower, tandan buahy bunchesof fruit, lukut, an antique bead, and ringgit salilang. Afour-pointed star, such as that shown in Fig. 64, is termedbuah andu^ fruit of Plukenetia corniculata; since this fruitis quadrate in shape with pointed angles, it is evident thatthe name has been applied to the pattern because of itsresemblance to the fruit. Furness figures examples ofthese designs and also Ling Roth [7, p. 88]. We figure(Figs. 75, ^6, yy) three designs for thethroat known sometimes as katak^ frogs,sometimes as tali gasieng, thread of thespinning wheel, and no doubt other mean-ingless names are applied to them. Twoof th
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