346 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO 



Blood of Fowls, &c. , in Ritual, ii, 31, 

 52-4, 60, 66 et alibi ; ex- 

 planation, ii. 107 - 8 ; in 

 Karen rites, ii, 239 

 Blood-brotherhood Ceremony, Animal 

 Sacrifice at, ii. 67 

 Blood-sprinkling and, ii, 107-8 

 Kayan, i. 180 



Man and Crocodile, Kayan belief, 

 ii. 76-7, no 

 Blood - feuds {see also Sham fights), 

 ii. 293, rite at Extinction of, 

 ii. 66 

 Blood-money, ii. 291, 300 

 Blow-pipe or Sumpitan, i. 175 n.\ 

 Kayan, i. 181, ii. 240 

 Klemantan, &c. , i. 34, 46 

 Punan, i. 144-5, 160-1, ii. 99, 126, 

 182, 191, 220 

 Manufacture of, i. 215 

 Blua, or Soul, nature of, ii. 34 ; recall 

 of, by Dayong, ii, 29 et seq. 

 Boas, Dr., cited on Totemism, ii. 1 12 «, i 

 Boat, in Malanau Exorcism, ii, 131 

 Boat-race atClaudetown Peace-making, 



ii. 293 et seq. 

 Boat-songs, i. 132 

 Boats, see also War-boats — 

 Kenyah, i. 166 

 Storage of, i. 53 

 Uses of, i. 55-6 

 Management of, in Rapids, i. 132-4 

 Paddles of, 132 



Speed of. Magic to spoil, ii. 124 

 Books of Magic, Batta, i. 13 

 Borak, rice-spirit, uses of, i. 113-4, 



126, ii. 21, 292 et alibi 

 Bornean tribes, Animals avoided by, 

 ii, 71, 72, 128-9 

 Classification of, ii. 223-4 

 Borneo Company, Minerals worked by, 



ii. 3o6(fc«. I 

 Borneo Races, Anthropometric Mea- 

 surements, relative, of, 

 ii. 316 et seq. 

 Bows and Arrows, Toy, in Ritual 

 {see also Cross-bow), i. 175 

 &n.\, ii. 163, 240 

 Boy, Stupid, Klemantan Story of, 



ii. 149 et seq. 

 Boyhood, Kayan, ii. 163 

 Boys, River rites connected with, ii. 25 

 War-initiation of, i. 174-5, "• 168, 

 169 

 Bracelets, i. 46 



Brachycephaly, Proto-Malay, ii. 312-3 

 Brass-ware, as Loot, i. 173 



Maloh, i. 197, ii. 253 

 Brereton, W., ii. 308 n.\ 



Bride-gifts, Kayan, ii. 171 et seq. ; 



Punan, ii. 184 



Bridge in Afterworld, Kayan, &c., 



guardians of, ii. 41, 44, 45 



British North Borneo Company, area 



and administration of, 



ii. 264 



Lawas river basin sold by, to Sarawak, 



ii. 262 

 Origin and operations of, i. 26-7 

 British rule in Borneo begun, i. 27, 



history of, ii. 257 et seq. 

 Broken limbs, repair of, ii. 208 

 Brooke, Sir Charles, present Rajah of 

 Sarawak, rule of, i. 183, 

 ii. 259, 260, 265<f,'«. I 

 Brooke, Sir James, first Rajah of 

 Sarawak, territory, tribes, 

 and rule of, i. 8, 24 ^/ seq. , 

 ii. 249, 257 etseq. , 265, 308 

 «. I 

 Bruni, or Brunei State, i. 9, ii. 106 

 Chinese Embassy to (1405), &c. , 



i. 16, 17, 21, 23 

 Chinese names for, and accounts of, 



i. 10-13 

 Early Buddhist rule in, i. 11, 12 

 Former overlords of, i. 14, 15 

 Iron currency of, ancient, i. 193 n. i 

 Pigafetta's visit to, i. 21 

 Piracy at, and end of English 



commerce, i. 24 

 Pirates of, and Rajah Brooke, 



ii. 257-8 

 Placed under British Resident, 



ii. 262 

 Portuguese expulsion from, ii. 309 

 Rise and fall of, i. 21, 22 

 Royal house, triple descent, i. 20 

 Sultan of, i. 9 



relations with British, i. 27 ; with 

 Rajah Brooke, ii. 257 etseq. 

 Town, builder of, i. 21 

 Buang Tawa, Bulkiah's capital, i. 21 

 Bubu, fish-trap, i. 137 

 Buddhism, ii. 230 



Buffalo {see also Water-Buffalo), agri- 

 cultural use of, ii. 246, 253 

 Sacrificed by Malanaus, ii. 106 

 Buffalo-hide shields, Dusun, i. 66 

 Bugis, origin of, ii. 253 

 Bukit Batu, Mount, Sea Dayak Alsatia, 

 operations against, i. 183-4, 

 ii. 301 

 Bukitan tribe. Nomad hunters, i. 177, 



locale of, ii. 178 

 Bulkiah, Sultan, or Nakoda Ragam, 



prowess of, i. 20-1 

 Bull-roarer, use of, ii. 23 



