Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo: A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean JunglesGomes, Edwin Herbert
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Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo: A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles
Gomes, Edwin Herbert
Iban (Bornean people); Sarawak (Malaysia) -- Description and travel
Sea Dyak in Sarawak, the future of the, 324
_Seragunting_, 278, 290
_Seregendah_, 306
_Seru_, 34
_Serunai_, 231
Services, 244, 245
_Shua_, Rajah, 305
_Singalang Burong_, 160, 196, 227, 284
Singapore, 233
Singing, 225
_Sireh_, 282
_Siu_, the story of, 278
Slavery, 94
Slaves, adoption of, 95
for debt, 95
Smallness of families, 104
Smallpox, 191
Social life, 86
position of the women, 86
Some curious customs, 316
personal experiences, 240
Song and music, 225
of mourning, 140, 228
of the head feast, 213
the wailers’, 140, 228
Songs, 229
Soul, the, 177
Spears, fishing, 55
Spinning-tops, 223
Spirit of the Winds, 228
Spirits, 183, 189, 227, 242
Sports and amusements, 220
Stones of wrath, 205
Stories, Sea Dyak, 252
Story of _Buda_, 114
Story of the mouse-deer and other animals who went out fishing,
the, 255
Story of the mouse-deer, the deer, and the pig, the, 259
Story of _Siu_, who first taught the Dyaks to plant paddy and to
observe the omens of birds, the, 278
_Sumping_, 141
_Sumpit_, or blow-pipe, 34, 78, 279
Superstitions of the Dyaks, 242
Swallows, 236
Swimming, 223
T
_Tajau_, 91
Tattooing, 37
_Tawak_, 229
Teaching the Dyaks, 242
Teeth, 38
Temudok, 247
_Tenyalang_, 211
Tidal bore, 146
Time, 322
Tops, spinning, 103, 295
Toys, 103
Traps, 53
Travel, love of, 233
Travelling, 145, 247
in Sarawak, 145
Trial, a Dyak, 89
by ordeal, 316
Tropical forests, 21
Truthfulness, 66
_Tuba_, 56
fishing, 56, 210
_Tugong bula_, 67
_Tujoh_, catechist, 113
U
_Ukits_, 34
_Ulit_, 139
Unselfishness, 70
V
Village house, Dyak, 42
Visit to a Dyak house, 240, 246
W
Wailers, professional, 140, 218, 228
Wailers’ song, 140
War boat, 79, 266
War costume, 78
council, 76, 81
songs, 225
spear, 76
Warfare, Dyak, 72, 297
Wealth, Dyak, 90
Weaving, 52
Wedding, Dyak, 122
Were-Tiger, 267
Were-Tiger’s sister, Danjai and the, 265
Winds, Spirit of the, 228, 229
Women, social position of, 86
Women’s work, 46, 51, 62
Work, men’s, 46, 325
women’s, 46, 62, 324
Wrestling, 224, 295
THE END
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