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the body. A paper embodying most of the facts 

 hitherto ascertained has been published by one of 

 us (C. H.) in conjunction with Mr. R. Shelford, 

 formerly curator of the Sarawak Museum, who has 

 paid special attention to the subject ; we therefore 

 reproduce here the greater part of the substance of 

 that paper/ with some slight modifications, and we 

 desire to express our thanks to Mr. Shelford^ for 

 his kind permission to make use of the paper in 

 this way. 



The great diversity of tribes in Borneo involves, in a 

 study of their tatu and tatuing methods, a good deal of 

 research and much travel, if first-hand information on the 

 subject is to be obtained. Between us we have covered 

 a considerable area in Borneo and have closely cross- 

 questioned members of nearly every tribe inhabiting 

 Sarawak on their tatu, but we cannot claim to have 

 exhausted the subject by any means ; there are tribes in 

 the interior of Dutch Borneo and in British North Borneo 

 whom we have not visited, and concerning whom our 

 knowledge is of the scantiest. 



The practice of tatu is so widely spread throughout 

 Borneo that it seems simpler to give a list of the tribes 

 that do not tatu, than of those who do. We can divide 

 such a list into two sections : the first including those tribes 

 that originally did not tatu, though nowadays many 

 individuals are met with whose bodies are decorated with 

 designs copied from neighbouring tribes ; the second 

 including the tribes (mostly Klemantan) that have given 

 up the practice of tatu owing to contact with Mohammedan 

 and other influences. 



A. I. Punan. 



2. Maloh. 



3. Land Dyak. 



^ "Materials for a Study of Tatu in Borneo," by Charles Hose and R. 

 vShelford, J. R.A.I, vol. xxxvi. Here also we have to thank the Council 

 of the Royal Anthropological Institute for permission to republish part of 

 this paper, and to reproduce the plates and figures accompanying it. The 

 reference figures of this section refer to the bibliographical list at the end of 

 this chapter. 



^ Since these pages were printed we have had to mourn tlie loss of our 

 friend and fellow-worker, cut off in the early summer of a life strenuously 

 devoted to scientific research. 



