INDEX

Aban,—the prefix to a name, [18], [55]
Aban Avit, [55]
Aban Avit’s veranda, [57], [66]
Aban Jau’s house, [111]
Aban Liah, [116]
Aban Liah’s final illness, [132]
Abun, the Chief at Long Lama, [69]
Admiration denoted by clucks, [101]
Adorn, [26]
Affection among the Borneans, [141]
Amau,—Omen birds and mammals, [160]
Ambuscade, a Bornean, [83]
Amok at Tama Aping Buling’s, [134]
Apoi, [27]
Appreciation of photographs, [125]
Appreciation of foreign songs, [27]
Arrack, drinking of, at naming ceremony, [42]
Attainment of paradise, [63]
Attempt to deceive the Omen birds, [28]
Bállo,—the prefix to a name, [18]
Bamboo, burning a strip of, to determine the giving of a name, [41]
Bamboo, ceremonial use of ashes of, [41], [42]
Bamboo drinking-cups, [107], [108]
Bananas, salt, and ginger root given at a Naming, [35], [42]
Batu, [76]
Beads, Lukut sekála, [118]
Beads, imitation of valuable, [118]
Belief in future life, [62]
Benefits from skulls hung in veranda, [59]
Berawans,—Disposal of the dead, [139]
‘Bintang sikópa’, [62]
Bird’s-nest caves, [178], [181]
Blackening the teeth, [157]
Blari, [27]
Blood, indifference to sight of, [62]
Blood of a fowl, inspection of, [50]
Blow-pipes, the making of, [113]
Blow-pipes among the Punans, [177]
Borrowing a head, [88]
Breaking a taboo, [115]
Bulan, daughter of Tama Bulan, [29]
Bulun matai, Fields of the Dead, [61]
Burial in jars, [139]
Burial of a Chief, [140]
Burial custom in the Naga Hills of Assam, [144]
Burial of Punans, [183]
Calling the name to revive a dying person, [50]
Camphor collecting, [167]
Camphor collecting, pre-empting a river, [115]
Camphor language, [168]
Camphor, reluctance to mention, [17]
Cases for war-coats, [8]
Casting off the taboos of mourning, [92]
Caves, bird’s nest, [178-181]
Ceremonial fire, [37]
Ceremonies at the naming of a Chief’s son, [16]
Ceremonies on the return from a war expedition, [90]
Changing name after sickness, [16]
Chanting of returning warriors, [91]
Charm to divert evil Spirits at the Lelak house, [99]
Charms for abundant crops, [164]
Charms worked with portraits of a person, [179]
Children initiated as warriors, [92]
Cigarette-making, [30]
Clucking to denote admiration, [101]
Communication between Omen birds and man, [162]
Conjunctivitis, [26]
Conveying thanks to Omen birds, [78]
Cord of life,—Tebuku urip,—Naming Ceremony, [34]
Corpse, presents to a, [166]
Costume of Berawan women while mourning, [139]
Costume of Kayans and Kenyahs, [21]
Council Negri, [20]
Council of war, [73]
Crops, charms for abundant, [164]
Cupping to relieve headache, [49]
Curled shavings on sticks, [168]
Cursing a house, [136]
Daily routine of household, [12]
Dancing performed by women of the Lelak household, [101]
Dayong, the, in case of illness, [12]
Dayong’s attempt to recall a departing soul, [50]
Dead bodies not carried through usual doorways, [52]
Dead father’s name not mentioned, [17]
Death posts, [67]
Decorated house posts, [56]
Decorating grave of dead Chief, [94]
Deer may not be cooked in the house, [71]
Deng, [27]
Depilation of eyebrows and eyelashes, [158]
Designs tattooed on the legs and arms of Kayan and Kenyah women, [148]
Determining a name by burning a loop of bamboo, [41]
Disposal of the dead,—Berawans, [139]
Dogs, [8]
Dreams, auspicious and prohibitory, to perforating the ears, [156]
Drinking arrack at a Naming, [42]
Drinking-cups, bamboo, [107], [108]
Drinking a toast, [106]
Dulit, Mount, [144]
Ear-lobes, elongated, [153]
Ear ornaments, [155]
Ears, perforation of, [156]
Early training of a Head-hunter, [54]
Eating of the flesh of deer, [166]
‘Eat slowly’, [80]
Edible bird’s-nests, [178], [182]
Education in indifference to sight of blood, [62]
Eternal life in the jungle, [64]
Etiquette in regard to weapons, [56]
Etiquette in entering a house, [130]
Evening chat with Aban Avit, [57]
Evil omens in pig’s liver at Aban Liah’s feast, [121]
Evil omen in pig’s liver at Tama Aping Buling’s, [132]
Evil Spirits exorcised by fire, [28]
Evil Spirits exorcised at the Naming ceremony, [33], [39]
Evil Spirits exorcised by spitting, [28]
Evil Spirits exorcised when a dog touches a rice-mortar, [165]
Evil Spirits warded off by gong-beating, [34]
Eyelashes and eyebrows depilated, [158]
Exhortation to the sacrificial pig at Aban Liah’s, [120]
Exorcism of Evil Spirits, [28], [33], [39]
Facsimile of valuable beads, [118]
Family rooms (Lamin), [9]
Fat pork feast at Naming ceremony, [44]
Fear of making life-like images or pictures, [56]
Feast at Tama Aping Buling’s, [133]
Feast after return of war party, [95]
Feast, injunction at beginning of, [47]
Feasting of a war party, [80]
Female tattooers, [151]
Fields of the dead, [61]
Fine for violating a permantong, [12]
Fire, a means of communicating with Omen birds, [4], [78]
Fire, ceremonial, [37]
Fire-drill, [37]
Fireplaces, [4]
Fire-saw, [37]
Fish not spoken of before a Tuba fishing, [17], [186]
Flattening heads, [158]
Food, [11]
Food of Punans, [175]
Freeing women from mourning restrictions, [93]
Future life, Belief in a, [62]
Game of tag in the water, [14]
Gathering edible bird’s-nests, [182]
Gau, [27]
Ghost’s clutch, [54]
Ginger root, salt, and bananas given at Naming ceremony, [35], [42]
Gong-beating to counteract effects of photography, [180]
Gong-beating to ward off evil Spirits, [34]
Government’s pig at the feast at Tama Aping Buling’s, [131]
Grave, decoration of a Chief’s, [94]
Greeting, absence of signs of, [142]
Grippe in Borneo, [25]
Grippe at Tama Bulan’s, [49]
Guest chambers in Lelak house, [102]
Handling of skulls, [65]
Harvest festival, [164]
Hawk-men,—Laki Niho, [161]
Head, borrowing a, [88]
Head-flattening, [158]
Head-hunter, early training of a, [54]
Head-hunters, mark of successful, [147]
Head-hunting, Origin of, [59]
Head-hunting, punishment for, [69]
Horn-bill, Image of, hung with cigarettes, [31]
Hose, Dr. Charles, invitation to people of Batang Kayan, [109]
House-building, [1], [3], [4]
House-building, sacrifice, [3]
House-posts, decorated, [56]
Humble attitude of women, [171]
Husking rice, [7]
Iban ear ornaments, [156]
Iban tattooing, [148]
Ill luck consigned to miniature boat, [179]
Images, fear of making life-like, [56]
Image of horn-bill hung with cigarettes, [31]
Images made to work evil as they decay, [93]
Importance of a name, [18]
Indemnity,—Usut, [112], [163]
Indifference to sight of blood, [62]
Inflammation of the eyes, [26]
Influence of skulls hung in the veranda, [65]
Initiation of children as warriors, [92]
Injunction at beginning of feast, [47]
Ink for tattooing, [152]
Inspection of pig’s liver at Aban Liah’s feast, [120]
Inspection of spattering of blood from a fowl, [50]
Instruction in the art of defence, [75]
Invocation of the sacred pig at a Naming, [40]
Invocation to the Spirits before a Tuba fishing, [188]
Iron given for infringement of permantong, [163]
Isit, the Omen-bird, [167]
Jamma, [110]
Jamma’s curse on Tama Aping Buling’s house, [136]
Jamma’s feigned death, [135]
Jawa, [116], [130]
Jawa, Violation of rules of, [129]
Jawa, or peace-making, [97]
Joke, a Bornean, [128]
Journey to Tama Bulan’s, [24]
Juman, [68]
Jungle, the, [64]
Kaluri, kaludi, or kaleeri (musical instrument), [6]
Kaluri among Naga tribes, [6]
Kayan songs, [81]
Kayan war dances, [101]
Kayans and Kenyahs, [21]
Kayans and Kenyahs, Costume of, [21]
Kenyah lunar calendar, [31]
Kayu urip,—Tree of life, [34]
Killing of Tinggi the murderer, [68]
Kilup breaks the rules of Jawa, [129]
Kissing, the Bornean custom, [13]
Kromong, a musical instrument, [110]
Kükenthal, Dr. Willy, [105]
Lack of affection, [141]
Laid Jok Orang, [106]
Laki La, [53]
Laki Niho,—Hawk-men, [161]
Laki Oi, Kayan Prometheus, [37]
Laki Pesong,—the Fire-saw, [37]
Lali, or permantong, [160]
Lali of the pregnant rice, [164]
Lali imposed on unnamed child, [32]
Lali of mourning removed, [94]
Lamin, or family rooms, [9]
Language of camphor collectors, [168]
Laram—meaning cool—idiomatic use of, [39]
Legend about origin of head-hunting, [59]
Lelak clan or tribe, [99]
Lelak, guest chamber, [102]
Leppu Anans, a small clan or tribe, [124]
Leput,—blow-pipes—Manufacture of, [113]
Leron clan, Jawa ceremonies, [117]
Lijow, Tama Bulan’s son, [42]
Lishun, [26]
Love tokens before a war expedition, [75]
Lueng’s death at Tama Bulan’s, [49]
Lukut Sekála, valuable beads, [118]
Lunar calendar, [31]
Ma Obat, [84]
Madong, [76]
Manin,—meaning warm—idiomatic use of, [39]
Manufacture of Sumpits or blow-pipes, [115]
Mark of successful Head-hunter, [147]
Marksmanship with the blow-pipe, [177]
Maternal advice before a war expedition, [76]
Meals, [11]
Medicine, Rhinoceros used as, [176]
Method of burial among the Berawans, [139]
Method of tattooing, [151]
Methods of resuscitating a fainting woman, [49]
Miniature boat to carry away ill-luck, [179]
Moon, Phases of, [31]
Mosquitoes, [23]
Mourning for a dead Chief, [139]
Mourning, restrictions of, removed, [92]
Mourning, restrictions of, removed from women, [93]
Mount Dulit, [144]
Musa—the Fire-saw, [37]
Music of the kaluri, [7]
Music of the kromong, [111]
Mutilation of the ears, [155]
Naga Hills, burial customs in, [144]
Nalika,—the Fire-drill, [37]
Name, determination of, [41]
Name of dead father not mentioned, [17]
Name, Reluctance in telling, [16]
Name, Importance of, [18]
Names of tattoo designs, [147]
Names, Paraphrases of, [18]
Names of relatives not mentioned, [17]
Naming ceremonies, [16]
Naming ceremonies, fat pork feast, [44]
Naming ceremonies, exhortation of sacred pig, [40]
Naming a Kenyah child, [32]
New Fire, [37]
Niah village and bird’s-nest caves, [178]
Night before a war expedition, [32]
Nicknames of very young children, [74]
Nipa palms, [23]
Oaths on a tiger’s tooth, [133]
Object of a hunt not mentioned, [17]
Objection to having idols photographed, [180]
Observation of Omens before clearing of the jungle, [162]
Occupations of the Punans, [175]
Omen animals, [161]
Omen birds and mammals—amau, [160]
Omen birds, attempts to deceive, [28]
Omen birds, communication between man and the, [162]
Omen birds conveying thanks to, [4], [78]
Omen bird,—Isit, [167]
Omens in pig’s liver, [43]
Omens in pig’s liver at Aban Liah’s feast, [121]
Omens in pig’s liver at Tama Aping Buling’s feast, [132]
Omen birds of house-building, [4]
Operation of wet-cupping, [49]
Orang Kaya Perkassa, [178]
Oratory, [73], [123]
Ordeal of a feast of raw pork, [44]
Origin of head-hunting, [59]
Origin of Punans, Legend, [183]
Ornaments worn in the ears, [155]
Ornamentation of the teeth, [157]
‘Pakat Abong’, [186]
Paradise, attainment of, [63]
Parangs, taken off on entering a veranda, [56]
Paraphrases of names, [18]
Peace-making, or Jawa, [97]
Perforation of the ears, [155]
Permantong or Lali, [160]
Permantong before house-building, [4]
Permantong, breaking of a, [115]
Permantong during sickness, [12]
Permantong during camphor collecting, [169]
Permantong, fine for violation of, [12]
Permantong of a room, [12]
Permantong in a Kayan house, [166]
Permantong, infringement of, [163]
Personal embellishment, [146]
Pestles used in husking rice, [7]
Phases of the moon, [31]
Photographing the Punans, [174]
Photographing idols, objection to, [180]
Photography, evil effects of, [34]
Photography, superstitions in regard to, [179]
Pictures of animals always conventionalised, [56]
Pig’s liver, Omens consulted in, [43]
Pipes, tobacco, [171]
Planting the corner-post of a house, [3]
Platforms on the veranda, [6]
Plugs of brass in the teeth, [157]
Portrait of a woman taken by Dr. Kükenthal, [105]
Posts recording head-hunts, [2], [67]
Pre-empting a river for camphor collecting, [115]
Prefixes of names, Meaning of, [55]
Preliminary to speech-making, [122]
Preparation for war expedition, [74]
Presents to guests at Naming ceremony, [55]
Presents to a corpse, [166]
Presents sent to tribes on Batang Kayan River, [108]
Primitive customs revived in all ceremonies, [90]
Pronouncing a name for the first time at a Naming, [42]
Propitiation of Spirits before tattooing, [151]
Propriety in broaching a subject for discussion, [73]
Punans, [170]
Punans,—burial customs, [183]
Punans’ bill of fare, [175]
Punans’ fear of water, [177]
Punans’ method of preparing tapioca, [176]
Punans, relationship to Long Wats, [183]
Punans, story of their origin, [183]
Punans, Village of, [173]
Punans, Village of, in bird’s-nest caves, [184]
Punishment for head-hunting, [69]
Purification after unlucky journey, [28]
‘Put,’—a blow-pipe, Manufacture of, [113]
Rack on which parangs are hung, [56]
Raw pork feast, [44]
Reasons for obtaining heads, [65]
Recalling the soul of a dying person, [50], [51]
Relationship of Punans to Long Wats, [183]
Religion of the Borneans, Negative, [64]
Reluctance to mention the name of the object of a search, [17]
Retaliation for the killing of Tinggi, [69]
Return of a war expedition, [90]
Return to earth of Spirits of the dead, [140]
Rhinoceros used as medicine, [176]
Rice husking, [7]
Rice mortars, [7]
Rice mortars protected during the Permantong Padi, [165]
Rivers pre-empted for camphor collecting, [115]
River scenery, [23]
Rivers tabooed, sign of, [167]
Rules of Tama Bulan’s house, [20]
Running amuck, [134]
Sacrifice of slave girl—house-building, [3]
Sacrifice of slave girl at burial of a Chief, [140]
Sacrifice of slave for education of boys, [62]
Sacrifice of pig on arrival of a Peace party, [126]
Salt, ginger root, and bananas given at a Naming, [35], [42]
Second day’s ceremony of Naming, [36]
Serious consequences to us on account of Lueng’s death, [52]
Shaving the hair after mourning, [92]
Shavings, curled, on sticks, [168]
Shy Punan maiden, [172]
Sign of permantong of a river, [167]
Sign of permantong in case of sickness, [12]
Singing among the Kayans, [81]
Skulls, the handling of, [65]
Skulls, influence of, hung in veranda, [65]
Skulls in Aban Avit’s veranda, [58]
Slaves, sacrifice of, [62], [140]
Sleeping-closets, [10]
Smearing face and body with soot as sign of mourning, [139]
‘Snappang,’ the name for a gun, [68]
Soap, [13]
Songs, appreciation of foreign, [27]
Speech-making, [73]
Speech-making at Aban Liah’s, [122]
Spitting to banish evil Spirits, [28]
Spitting on the hair cut off after mourning, [93]
Sprinkling with water at a Naming, [39]
Start of a war party, [77]
Sticks cut into curled shavings, [168]
Stinging ants, [177]
Stretching the lobes of the ears, [153]
Substitution of names, [17], [18], [55], [186]
Summit of Mount Dulit, [144]
Sumpits,—blow-pipes—Manufacture of, [113]
Superstition with regard to photography, [179]
Table manners, [11]
Taboo or permantong, [160]
Taboo, the breaking of, [115]
Tag in the water, Game of, [14]
‘Tama’, [18]
Tama Aping Buling’s house, [127]
Tama Balan Deng’s house, [136]
Tama Bulan, [18], [21]
Tama Bulan’s son, [30]
Tama Bulan’s farewell to the Peace party, [109]
Tama Liri’s house, [103]
Tama Talun, [27]
Tapioca, Method of preparation, [176]
Tattoo designs, names of, [147]
Tattooers, female, [151]
Tattooing, propitiation of spirits before, [151]
Tattooing of Kayan men, [146]
Tattooing of Kayan and Kenyah women, [148]
Tattooing needle and ink, [152]
‘Tebok bulu,’—bamboo cup, [107]
‘Tebuku Tali’ (note), [34]
‘Tebuku urip,’—cord of life, [34]
Teeth, Ornamentation of, [157]
Terluat, [27]
Tiger skin regarded with awe, [133]
Tiger skin used in uttering a curse, [136]
Tiger’s tooth, oath sworn on, [133]
‘Tigga’—charms for the crops, [164]
Timidity of Punans, [173]
Tina—a prefix to a name, [18]
Tinggi, a murderer, [68]
Toasts, the Bornean custom of giving, [105]
Tobacco growing wild, [183]
Tobacco pipes, [171]
‘Toh Lali’, [163]
Tokong, the father of head-hunting, [59]
Tone of voice of Punans, [174]
Tree of life,—Kaya Urip—Naming ceremony, [34]
Tuba berábut, and Tuba ja jaran, [185]
Tuba-fishing, [185]
Tuba-fishing, fish not mentioned before, [17], [186]
Tuba-fishing, invocation of spirits, [188]
Unfavourable sign in pig’s liver at Aban Liah’s feast, [121]
Unnamed children, [18], [32]
Unselfish love not a trait of the Borneans, [141]
‘Usut,’ The rite of giving, [112], [163]
Valuable beads,—Lukut Sekála, [118]
Verandas of Kayan and Kenyah houses, [4]
Violation of the rules of ‘Jawa’, [129]
Wailing for the dead, [52], [138]
War-coats, cases for, [8]
War dances, [101]
War expedition, [67]
War expedition, ceremonies on return of, [90]
War expedition, preparation for, [74]
War party, the feasting of a, [80]
Water, use of, in Naming ceremony, [39]
Wawa monkey sacred to some families, [55]
Weapons, etiquette in regard to, [56]
Wet cupping, [49]
Why the Balira is a bony fish, [187]
Wild tobacco, [183]
Wit of Borneans, [128]
Women dressing as men, [164]
Women, humble attitude of, [171]
Wooden discs as ear-ornaments, [155]
Words of invitation to a feast, [80]