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to Schwaner's account ; thus, a figure composed of two 

 spiral lines interlacing each other and with stars at the 

 extremities tatued on the shoulder signified that the man 

 had taken several heads ; two lines meeting each other 

 at an acute angle behind the finger nails signified dexterity 

 in wood-carving ; a star on the temple was a sign of 

 happiness in love. We have no reason to consider this 

 information inaccurate, but we do consider it lamentable 

 that more details concerning the most interesting forms of 

 tatu in Borneo were not obtained, for it is only too 

 probable that such information cannot be acquired now. 

 The women of this tribe do not tatu. In the upper Teweh 

 river, an upper tributary of the Barito the men are tatued a 

 good deal, especially on parts of the face, such as the fore- 

 head, the cheeks, the upper lip. The only figures that 

 Schwaner gives are reproduced by Ling Roth [7, p. 93], 

 they represent two Ngajus ; the tatu designs are drawn on 

 too small a scale to be of much interest, and in any case we 

 have no information concerning them. The two figures of 

 * Tatued Dyaks ' (? Kayans) (after Professor Veth), on p. 95 

 of the above-cited work cannot be referred to any tribe 

 known to us. 



Hamer in his paper [5] gives a detailed account of 

 Biajau tatu, but, unfortunately, without any illustrations ; 

 as abstracts of the paper have already been given by Ling 

 Roth [7, pp. 93, 94] and by Hein [6, pp. 143-147], we will 

 pass on to the next section. 



(g) Ot-Danum^ Ulu AjaVy and Siang (Kapuas river, 

 tributaries). — Concerning these tribes Nieuwenhuis says but 

 little [9, p. 452], merely noting that the men are first tatued 

 with discs on the calf and in the hollow of the knee and 

 later over the arms, torso, and throat, whilst the women 

 tatu the hands, knees, and shins. Two colours, red and 

 blue, are used, and the designs are tatued free-hand, the 

 instrument employed being a piece of copper or brass 

 about four inches long and half an inch broad, with one 

 end bent down at a right angle and sharpened to a point. 

 Sometimes thread is wound round the end of the instru- 

 ment just above the point, to regulate the depth of its 

 penetration. Two specimens in the Leyden Museum are 

 figured by Ling Roth [7, p. 85]. Hamer [5] says that the 

 Ot-Danum women are tatued down the shin to the tarsus 

 with two parallel lines, joined by numerous cross-lines, a 

 modification of the Uma Tow design for the same part of 



