270 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



river. The latter illustration shows a man tatued with a 

 characteristic check pattern over the torso, stomach, and 

 arms, but there is no reference to the plate in the text. 

 Our figure is copied from a drawing by Dr. H. Hiller, of 

 Philadelphia. 



{{) Bakatan and Ukit. — As Nieuwenhuis has pointed 

 out [9, p. 451], the tatu of these tribes is distinctive, 

 inasmuch as most of the designs are left in the natural 

 colour of the skin against a background of tatu ; that is to 

 say in the phraseology of the photographer, whilst the tatu 

 designs of Kayans, Kenyahs, etc., are positives^ those of 

 the Bakatans are negatives. The men were formerly most 



extensively tatued, and 

 we figure the principal 

 designs (PL 143), most 

 of which were drawn 

 from a Bakatan of 

 the Rejang river. The 

 chest is covered with a 

 bold scroll design known 

 as gerowit, hooks 

 (Kay an, kowif) (Figs, i, 

 2) ; across the back and 

 shoulder blades stretches 

 a double row of circles, 

 kanak, with small hooks 

 interposed (Fig. 9) ; on 

 the side of the shoulder 

 a pattern known as akih^ 

 the lizard, Ptychozoon 

 honialocephaluni (Fam. 

 Geckonidae), is tatued (Figs. 3, 4) ; this lizard is used as a 

 haruspex by the Bakatan. Circles are tatued on the biceps, 

 on the back of the thigh, and on the calf of the leg ; a modi- 

 fication of the scroll design of the chest occurs on the flexor 

 surface of the forearm. Another form of pattern for the 

 calf of the leg is shown in Fig. 73, it is termed selong 

 bowang, the horse-mango, Mangifera sp., the same fruit 

 as that termed by Kayans ipa olim, and of which a 

 representation forms the chief element in the Long Utan 

 tatu. A series of short lines is tatued on the jaw, and is 

 termed ja, lines, or kilang^ sword-pattern, and a gerowit 

 design occurs under the jaw ; the pattern on the throat is 

 known also as gerowit (Fig. 10). On the forehead is 



