276 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



p. 88] is termed trong, the ^%% plant. On the breast and 

 shoulders some forms of rosette or star design are tatued in 

 considerable profusion ; they are known variously as 

 bunga trough the ^%% plant flower, tandan buahy bunches 

 of fruit, lukut, an antique bead, and ringgit salilang. A 

 four-pointed star, such as that shown in Fig. 64, is termed 

 buah andu^ fruit of Plukenetia corniculata ; since this fruit 

 is quadrate in shape with pointed angles, it is evident that 

 the name has been applied to the pattern because of its 

 resemblance to the fruit. Furness figures examples of 

 these designs and also Ling Roth [7, p. 88]. We figure 

 (Figs. 75, ^6, yy) three designs for the 

 throat known sometimes as katak^ frogs, 

 sometimes as tali gasieng, thread of the 

 spinning wheel, and no doubt other mean- 

 ingless names are applied to them. Two 

 of the figures (Figs. 75, yy) are evidently 

 modifications of the Bakatan gerowit 

 design, but here they are represented 

 with the tatu pigment, whilst with the 

 Fig 77 Bakatans the design is in the natural 



colour of the skin against a background 

 of pigment, i.e. the Dayak design is the positive of the 

 Bakatan negative. Furness figures two examples of the 

 throat design, one with a transverse row of stars cutting 

 across it; the same authority also figures a design for the 

 ribs known as tali sabit, waist chains, consisting of two 

 stars joined by a double zigzag line. The same design is 

 sometimes tatued on the wrist, when it is known as lukut^ 

 antique bead ; it is also tatued on the throat [7, p. 88], 

 and attention has already been drawn to the probable 

 derivation of this design also from a Bakatan model. 



It is only very seldom that Sea Dayak women tatu, and 

 then only in small circles on the breasts [7, p. 83] and on 

 the calves of the legs. 



As a conclusion to the foregoing account of Bornean 

 tatu we add a table which summarises in the briefest 

 possible manner all our information ; its chief use perhaps 

 will lie in showing in a graphic manner the blanks in our 

 knowledge that still remain. 



We do not consider that tatu can ever be of much value 

 in clearing up racial problems, seeing how much evidence 

 there is of interchange of designs and rejection of indigenous 



