310 A NATURALIST IN BORNEO 



Dr. Haddon x would abolish the term Dayak alto- 

 gether on account of the confusion that has been 

 caused by its inaccurate use ; and to the Sea-Dayaks 

 he applies the term I ban, a corruption of the Kayan 

 " ivan," 2 a man, and a term applied to themselves by 

 the Sea-Dayaks. For the Land-Dayaks he would prefer 

 to use another term, or would as an alternative call 

 them the Dayaks. Dayak is a word that cannot now 

 be eradicated, and as the Sea-Dayaks are to-day the 

 dominant tribe in Borneo and are destined, I fear, 

 eventually to oust from Sarawak, at any rate, nearly all 

 the other tribes, I would apply the word Dayak to them 

 alone. Like Dr. Haddon, I still search for a satisfactory 

 name for the Land-Dayaks.3 



The following table will show in a succinct manner 

 the ideas of classification discussed above : 



[The author had written below his concluding paragraph " Repro- 

 duce Table from Tatu Paper," referring to his own and Dr. C. Hose's 

 " Materials for a Study of Tatu in Borneo." 4 The greater part of 

 this memoir is reproduced in Hose and McDougall's Pagan Tribes of 

 Borneo, vol. I. p. 245, and, as Dr. A. C. Haddon's Appendix to vol. II. 

 of the same work includes on p. 320 a more recent classification 

 drawn up by Dr. Hose, I have with his kind consent reprinted this 

 rather than the earlier one. Dr. Haddon in adopting this classifica- 

 tion states (p. 319, 11. i) that "it will be found to agree very closely 

 with the anthropometric data," and that " we may regard it as 

 expressing the present state of our knowledge of the affinities of the 

 several tribes." E. B. P.] 



1 In his memoir, " A Sketch of the Ethnography of Sarawak," 

 Archivio per I'Antropologia e I'Etnologia, XXXI. (1901), pp. 341-55. 



2 Ivan is a Kayan word meaning a person who moves from his 

 home to that of some one else as in the case of marriage. C. H. 



3 It would probably be simpler to retain the term Dayak for the 

 " Land-Dayaks" and to call the " Sea-Dayaks " Iban. H. B. 



* Journ. Anthrop. Inst., XXXVI. (N. Ser.), IX. (1906), pp. 60-91. 



