The Pagan Tribes of Borneo - Part 16
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Geometrical serial designs, discs, ? isolated designs.

Arm from shoulders to wrist; calf of leg.

? Ornament.

[female]

Designs employed by Kayan [male] [male]

Forearms and legs.

? Ornament.

Lepu Lutong [female]

Simple geometrical design.

Forearm and back of hand.

Uma Tow [male]

? ? same as Kayan designs.

[female]

Simple geometrical designs (low-cla.s.s [female]

[female]), anthropomorphic designs, copied from other tribes (high-cla.s.s [female] [female]).

Forearm and back of hand, front and sides of the thigh and the shin.

Some.

Long Glat and Uma Luhat.

[male]

? not at all.

[female]

Complicated serial designs, chiefly of zoomorphic MOTIF.

As with Kayan [female] [female], but also with lines round the ankles. Tatu of forearms not so extensive.

Chiefly ornament, for use in the next world.

Kalamantan.

Uma Long [female]

Simple geometrical design ("stippled") Forearm and back of hand.

Dusun [male]

Lines Stomach, breast, arm.

None Partly as tally of enemies slain.

Murut [male]

Scroll designs and circles Above the knee-cap; on the breast (Practice obsolescent).

None.

[female]

Parallel lines.

Arm and back of hand.

? None.

? Ornament.

Kalabit [male]

As with Dusuns As with Dusuns ?

[female]

Zigzags and chevrons.

Forearms, the lower part of the leg.

Very little.

Long Utan [female]

Complicated serial geometrical designs.

As with Long Glat.