. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. sign knownas gerowit, hooks(Kayan, kowif) (Figs, i,2) ; across the back andshoulder blades stretchesa double row of circles,kanak, with small hooksinterposed (Fig. 9); onthe side of the shouldera pattern known as akih^the lizard, Ptychozoonhonialocephaluni (), is tatued (Figs. 3, 4); this lizard is used as aharuspex by the Bakatan. Circles are tatued on the biceps,on the back of the thigh, and on the calf of the leg ; a modi-fication of
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. sign knownas gerowit, hooks(Kayan, kowif) (Figs, i,2) ; across the back andshoulder blades stretchesa double row of circles,kanak, with small hooksinterposed (Fig. 9); onthe side of the shouldera pattern known as akih^the lizard, Ptychozoonhonialocephaluni (), is tatued (Figs. 3, 4); this lizard is used as aharuspex by the Bakatan. Circles are tatued on the biceps,on the back of the thigh, and on the calf of the leg ; a modi-fication of the scroll design of the chest occurs on the flexorsurface of the forearm. Another form of pattern for thecalf of the leg is shown in Fig. 73, it is termed selongbowang, the horse-mango, Mangifera sp., the same fruitas that termed by Kayans ipa olim, and of which arepresentation forms the chief element in the Long Utantatu. A series of short lines is tatued on the jaw, and istermed ja, lines, or kilang^ sword-pattern, and a gerowitdesign occurs under the jaw ; the pattern on the throat isknown also as gerowit (Fig. 10). On the forehead is.
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