Identifier: throughcentralbo01lumh (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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old weather preventedthem from sleeping much. It often happened that theywere without food for three days, when they would drinkwater and smoke tobacco. Trees are climbed in the jump-ing way described before, and without any mechanicalaid. Formerly bathing was not customary. Excrementsare left on the ground and not in the water. Theydont like the colour red, but prefer black. Fire wasmade by flint and iron, which they procured from theSaputans. The hair is not cut nor their teeth. The women weararound the head a ring of cloth inside of which are vari-ous odoriferous leaves and flowers of doubtful apprecia-tion by civilised olfactory senses. A strong-smellingpiece of skin from the civet cat is often attached to thishead ornament, which is also favoured by natives on theMahakam. In regard to ear ornamentation the Penyahbongs arcat least on a par with the most extreme fashions of theDayaks. The men make three slits in the ear; in theupper part a wooden disk is enclosed, in the middle the
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