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various patterns; but images of the sun, moon, and 

 stars, are amongst the most frequent. 



It is reported that some of the tribes on the Barram 

 and Bintulu rivers do not tattoo the persons of the 

 males, and that the practice is there confined to the 

 women, who thus discolour their arms and legs only. 

 The Kenawit Dyaks, whose country borders that of the 

 Kyans, also practice tatooing, as do the Orang Tatow, 

 who live near the Bintulu river, and more towards the 

 coast than the Kyans. These people also call them- 

 selves Dyaks, but the races appear to be so easily traced 

 through the Tatows, the Kenawits and other tribes, to 

 the Dyaks of Sarebas and Sakarran, that there is no 

 doubt that one comprehensive term, whether it be Dyak 

 or Kyan, is applicable to all their divisions ; and the 

 whole of the inhabitants of the island are certainly of 

 the same race. 



The Dutch authors always speak of the Kyans 

 of south Borneo, as the " Dyah Kyan," including all 

 the infidel natives of the island under the former 

 term, and using the names of divisions and tribes as 

 specific names of this generic appellation. In dress and 

 person, the Kyans very much resemble the Dyaks ; the 

 women wearing the small bedang, and the men the 

 chawat : this latter is said to be uniformly of greater 

 length and width than those used by the Dyaks, and to 

 be frequently made of European cloth, though the 

 women are expert in the manufacture of coarse kinds, 

 both from cotton, and it is said, also from the fibres of 

 the pine-apple leaves, which are abundant in this country. 



