The Home-life of Borneo Head-hunters
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The Home-life of Borneo Head-hunters, by William Henry Furness, is given the added title words Its Festivals and Folk-lore. The preface says that after living among them for months at a time, an insight is gained into their individualities and peculiarities. A description of tattooing says that three needles are bound tightly together, and that the ink is made of the juice of sugar-cane, thickened with the soot of damar gum.
While the smoking is in full blast, the women retire to their rooms and array themselves in gaudy bead-work, and the men range themselves in two long rows facing each other. A sacrifice scene features an albino pig with whitish eyes and a pale, mottled snout, which Dr. Hose is to exhort to proclaim, by infallible omens in its liver, whether or not the Government’s course was right.
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- William Henry Furness
- Pages
- 229
- Language
- English
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- Sociology
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