The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations

by Charles Hose; William McDougall

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. ? ?

Biajau
[male]
Complicated serial geometrical designs, scrolls, zoomorphs, etc.
Almost the whole body including the face amongst some of the
sub-tribes.
?
With some sub-tribes to signify success in war and love, manual
dexterity, etc.

[female] ? ? ? ? as with Long Glat. ? ?

Ot-Danum, Ulu Ajar, etc.
[male]
Curved lines, discs, and simple geometrical designs.
On breast, stomach, outside of arms and thighs, calf of leg.
? None.
In some cases a sign of bravery.