232 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



and white, made respectively from soot, iron oxide, 

 and lime — are, so far as we know, the only native 

 varieties ; but at the present day these are sometimes 

 supplemented with indigo and yellow pigments 

 obtained from the bazaars. The pigment is gener- 

 ally laid on free-hand with the finger-tip, a few 

 guiding points only being put in. 



It may be mentioned here that individuals of all 

 the tribes will occasionally amuse themselves by 

 making rude drawings with charcoal on the plank 

 wall of the gallery. The drawings usually depict 

 human and animal figures, and scenes from the 

 life of the people, and they generally illustrate the 



particular form of occu- 

 pation in which the 

 household is employed 

 at the time, e.g. scenes 

 from the padi fields, a 

 group of people weed- 

 ing, the return of a war- 

 party, the collection of 

 honey, the capture of a 

 large fish. These draw- 

 ings are invariably very crude ; their nature is 

 sufficiently indicated by PI. 128. There seem to 

 be no noteworthy differences in this respect between 

 the different peoples. 



The Punans, having no houses and therefore no 

 walls on which to draw pictures, have little oppor- 

 tunity to indulge any such tendency ; but we have 

 seen rude hunting scenes depicted by them on the 

 walls of shallow caves ; the technique consisted in 

 scratching away the soft rotted surface of the lime- 

 stone rock to produce outlines of the figures depicted. 

 The Malanaus, who live in the large limestone 

 caves during the time of harvesting the edible nests 

 of the swift, sometimes make rude drawings with 

 charcoal on the walls of the cave. 



Fig. 48. — Kayan Cradle ornamented 

 with flat tops of cone shells. 



