310 A NATURALIST IN BORNEO 



Dr. Haddon 1 would abolish the term Dayak alto- 

 gether on account of the confusion that has been 

 caused by its inaccurate use ; and to the Sea-Dayaks 

 he applies the term I ban, a corruption of the Kayan 

 " ivan," 2 a man, and a term applied to themselves by 

 the Sea-Dayaks. For the Land-Dayaks he would prefer 

 to use another term, or would as an alternative call 

 them the Dayaks. Dayak is a word that cannot now 

 be eradicated, and as the Sea-Dayaks are to-day the 

 dominant tribe in Borneo and are destined, I fear, 

 eventually to oust from Sarawak, at any rate, nearly all 

 the other tribes, I would apply the word Dayak to them 

 alone. Like Dr. Haddon, I still search for a satisfactory 

 name for the Land-Dayaks.3 



The following table will show in a succinct manner 

 the ideas of classification discussed above : 



[The author had written below his concluding paragraph " Repro- 

 duce Table from Tatu Paper," referring to his own and Dr. C. Hose's 

 " Materials for a Study of Tatu in Borneo." 4 The greater part of 

 this memoir is reproduced in Hose and McDougall'sPa^an Tribes of 

 Borneo, vol. I. p. 245, and, as Dr. A. C. Haddon's Appendix to vol. II. 

 of the same work includes on p. 320 a more recent classification 

 drawn up by Dr. Hose, I have with his kind consent reprinted this 

 rather than the earlier one. Dr. Haddon in adopting this classifica- 

 tion states (p. 319, 11. i) that " it will be found to agree very closely 

 with the anthropometric data," and that " we may regard it as 

 expressing the present state of our knowledge of the affinities of the 

 several tribes." E. B. P.] 



1 In his memoir, " A Sketch of the Ethnography of Sarawak," 

 Archivio per I'Antropologia e I'Etnologia, XXXI. (1901), pp. 341-55. 



3 Ivan is a Kayan word meaning a person who moves from his 

 home to that of some one else as in the case of marriage. C. H. 



3 It would probably be simpler to retain the term Dayak for the 

 " Land-Dayaks" and to call the " Sea-Dayaks " Iban. H. B. 



Journ. Anthrop. Inst., XXXVI. (N. Ser.), IX. (1906), pp. 60-91. 



