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designs very largely if not entirely from the Long Glat ; 

 with them the back of the thigh is tatued before the front, 

 which is exceptional. Half of the knee is tatued. Their 

 designs are modifications of the hornbill and dog's head 

 designs of the Long Glat. Nieuwenhuis figures several 

 examples [9, PI. 87, Fig. b, Plate 88, PL 89, PI. 93, 

 Fig. a^ PI. 94], which should be consulted, as they are 

 of the greatest interest. 



The Long Wai seem to tatu in much the same way as 

 the Uma Luhat [2, PI., p. 189 and 7, p. 91]. 



iv. Tatu of Muruts and Klemantans. 



A number of tribes have adopted more or less the tatu 

 of the Kayans. Thus the men of the following Sarawak 

 tribes, Sibops, Lirongs, Tanjongs, Long Kiputs, Barawans, 

 and Kanowits, are often, though not universally, tatued like 

 Kayans. The shoulder pattern of the Barawans is distinc- 

 tive, in that the rosette nearly always bears a scroll attached 

 to it, a relic of the dog motifs from which the design is 

 derived (PI. 138, Fig. 6). E. B. Haddon [4, Fig. 17] 

 figures another form of the dog motif, which is tatued on 

 the thigh or forearm, and Ling Roth [7, p. 86] figures three 

 rosette designs for the breast ; we figure two modifications 

 of the dog design on PI. 137, Figs. 7 and 8. The women 

 of these tribes very rarely tatu ; we have seen a Tanjong 

 woman with a circle of star-shaped figures round her wrist 

 and one on the thumb. The Tring women of Dutch Borneo 

 are tatued on the hands and thighs like Kayans ; Carl Bock 

 [2, PI., p. 187] gives some figures of them. In our opinion 

 all of these tribes owe their tatu entirely to foreign influ- 

 ences ; for we have failed to find a single example of an 

 original design ; the practice is by no means universal, and 

 great catholicity of taste is shown by those who do tatu. 

 The men, moreover, do not tatu as a sign of bravery in 

 battle or adventure, but merely from a desire to copy the 

 more warlike Kayan. 



We shall now treat of those tribes that have a distinctive 

 and original tatu, but it is well to bear in mind, that 

 amongst many of these people also the Kayan designs are 

 coming into vogue more and more, ousting the old designs. 

 No tatu-blocks are employed for the indigenous patterns, 

 all the work being done free-hand. 



{a) Uma Long, — The Uma Long women of the Batang 



