[9] Poles cut into shavings in this manner have a significance which even the Borneans have lost sight of; they never could or would give any reason therefor except that it was ‘the custom.’
[10] Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Journal of Am. Oriental Soc., 1900, xxi., p. 30 et seq.
[11] See The Golden Bough, Frazer, vol. i., p. 15.
[12] See page 54 and photograph.
[13] Dr. Willy Kükenthal, Forschungsreise in den Molukken und in Borneo, 1896, Tafel 42.
[14] See also, to the same effect, The Golden Bough, vol. i., p. 26.
[15] Allow me to call attention to the fact, whereof the significance I am hardly competent to judge, that in the Mohammedan Paradise ‘the most remarkable tree is called Tûba, or the tree of happiness,’ which among its manifold blessings, ‘will supply the blessed with food.’ Sale’s Koran. Preliminary Discourse, p. 68, ed. London, 1857.