In the same sense Professor Nieuwenhuis writes about the Kayans on the Mendalam: “As the men are often absent on long journeys, the women get the lead in household affairs” (Door Centraal-Borneo, I p. 77.). [↑]

[161] Bancroft, p. 93. [↑]

[162] Lewis and Clark, II pp. 334, 335. [↑]

[163] Grosse, p. 65. [↑]

[164] Ibid., pp. 74–78. [↑]

[165] Bancroft, p. 437. [↑]

[166] Ibid., p. 412. [↑]

[167] Powers, as quoted by Bancroft, p. 351. [↑]

[168] Bancroft, p. 351. [↑]

[169] Ibid., p. 117. [↑]