i66 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



Dusuns, who have the domesticated buffalo, use a 

 shield of buffalo-hide attached to the forearm by a 

 strap — a feature unknown in all the other types, 

 which are borne by the handle only. The Sea 

 Dayaks nowadays make a greater variety of shields, 

 copying those of the other tribes with variations of 



their own. The shield 

 originally used by them 

 before coming into con- 

 tact with many other 

 tribes, but now dis- 

 carded, was made of 

 strips of bamboo plaited 

 together and stiffened 

 with a longitudinal strip 

 of wood (Fig. 28). It 

 was of two shapes, both 

 oblong, one with 

 rounded, the other with 

 pointed ends. 



The Land Dayaks still 

 use a shield of tough 

 bark (Fig. 29), and it is 

 not improbable that these 

 were used by other tribes 

 at no distant date. 



Every Kayan house- 

 hold possesses, beside the 

 many smaller boats, one 

 or more boats especially 

 designed for use in war. A typical war- boat is 

 about 100 feet in length, from six to seven feet 

 wide in its middle part, and tapers to a width of 

 about three and a half feet at bow and stern. In 

 some cases the length of the war-boat, which is 

 always made from a single log, is as much as 

 145 feet in length (PI. 96), but so large a boat is 

 unwieldy in use, and its construction costs an exces- 



FiG. 28. 



