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bright scarlet and sleeves of dark blue, which is worn by young 

 women and girls. The old women keep for themselves the firmly- 

 woven hemp waist, with its long black sleeves and dark wine- 

 colored body. Younger women save themselves time and trouble 

 by securing cotton stuff that can be bought at the coast and quickly 

 sewed together; but just when the tabu on the use of linombus by 

 the young originated we do not know. That a custom which has 

 passed out of use from unmistakably economic causes should now 

 lie prohibited under an ethical category is interesting to note. As 

 for the young men, I heard no statement to the effect that they 

 ever wore the closed linombus 37 " shirt. Their present short jacket, 

 open in front and made of hemp woven in fine checks, may have 

 been the historic garment. Only the sons and nephews of chief- 

 tains are permitted to wear the closed, claret-colored shirt of the 

 old people, and for them it is frequently embroidered very beauti- 

 fully and decorated with pearl discs. It is possible that the linombus 

 shirt, like the kerchief of brave men, was formerly associated with 

 rank and prowess, and that later it came to lie reserved for old 

 people only. 



It is tabu for women to eat the sacrificial food which, under the 

 inline of taroanan : 371 is offered upon the altar at (Jinnm. 



It is tabu for young women to embroider the wide closed scarf 

 called sinaya, which is worn by mothers to support the baby as it rests 

 upon the hip. This scarf passes over the right shoulder, across the 

 chest, and under the left arm, and is covered with highly decorative 

 figures embroidered with a special needlework that is now almost 

 a lost art. Only aged women are permitted to do this embroidery, 

 and now there are but few old women who understand the art. 373 



The ivory ear-plugS called </t/<///it/ seem mice to have been tabu 

 to married men. It is said that these splendid discs of ivory are 

 distinctive of men who are malaki, or virgin, bul the tabu is cer- 

 tainly qoI dow strictly preserved. 



It is tabu to men and women who are not unmarried and (diaste 



(malaki and daraga) to wear the wide, solid shell bracelet called 



pangolan. I remember having seen but one married man wearing 



""In the Bila-an tribe, young men freely wear both jacket and trousers of linom- 

 bna cloth. 



J " See pp. 79, 104, L88. 



3 '»See flu- illustration in Amcr. Mus. Jour., vol. 11, p. 166. May, 1911. This scarf 

 19 called also salunboy. 



