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Plate 87b (face pg. 152) from C.Hose / W.McDougall (1912): The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.
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Title: The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hose, Charles, 1863-1929 McDougall, William, 1871-1938 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropometry
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ginning these operations. They will speakto no one outside the party, and will speak no wordof Malay to one another; and it is considered thatthey are more likely to be successful if they confinethemselves to the use of a peculiar language whichseems to be a conventional perversion of the Punanspeech. On entering a small river the party stretchesa rattan across its mouth ; and, where they leavethe river, they erect on the bank a pole or frayedstick.^ Other persons seeing such sticks set up willunderstand and respect the partys desire for privacy.They then march through the jungle to the placewhere they expect to find a group of camphor trees,marking their path by bending the ends of twigsat certain intervals in the direction in which theparty is moving. Having found a likely tree they ^ A stick of this kind is used in many rites. It is prepared by whittlingshavings from a stick and leaving them attached at one end ; so that a seriesof the shavings projects along one side of the stick.
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