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Title: Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922
Subjects: Ethnology -- Borneo Natural history -- Borneo Borneo -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a low fencefor the purpose of keeping pigs out. The storehousesrecalled those of the Bulungan, with their wide woodenrings around the tops of the supporting pillars, to pre-vent mice from ascending. Outside of the fence near thejungle two water-buffaloes were always to be seen in theforenoon lying in a mud-pool; these we were warnedagainst as being dangerous. These Dayaks, who areshy but very friendly, are said to have immigrated hereover thirty years ago. They are mostly of medium size,the women stocky, with thick ankles, though otherwisetheir figures are quite good. The Ot-Danum men, likethe Murungs, Siangs, and Katingans, place conspicu-ously on the calf of the leg a large tatu mark representingthe full moon. When preparing to be photographed,men, women, and children decorate their chests withcrudely made gold plates shaped nearly like a half moonand hanging one above another, generally five in number.One of the blians was a Malay. Here we had to stay two weeks, while the remainder
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OT-DANUM, WEARING GOLD BREASTPLATES. TELOK DJULO

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