240 THE HILL DYAKS. 



that their many miseries may have much increased this 

 appearance, though it is natural to them, being observ- 

 able, in a less degree, in all the tribes of both divi- 

 sions. Their countenance is an index to the character 

 of their mind, for they are of peculiarly quiet and mild 

 dispositions, not easily roused to anger, or the exhi- 

 bition of any other passion or emotion, and rarely 

 excited to noisy mirth, unless during their periodical 

 festivals. Their dress, when they have property suf- 

 ficient to obtain one, is the long cloth, or " chawat," the 

 manufacture of the Sakarran Dyaks ; but poverty more 

 frequently compels them to supply its place with a 

 rough substance made of the bark of several trees, 

 particularly that of the genus Artocarpus, which 

 produces the bread-fruit. Their head-dress is of the 

 same material, being a strip of the bark dyed yellow, and 

 twisted into folds, after which it is bound round the 

 head. For ornaments, they wear bracelets of the red 

 wood of the heart of the Tapang tree, which, after 

 exposure to the air, becomes black as ebony, and being 

 without its brittle qualities, is more durable ; and broad 

 armlets, which are made of the shell (Kima) from the 

 coast of Celebes, and which, when polished by length of 

 use among the Dyaks, resembles ivory, but never acquires 

 its yellow tinge, always remaining of the purest white 

 colour. 



The young men, who affect gallantry, wear in- 

 numerable strings of beads around their necks, and 

 also cover the upper portion of the arm with rings of 



