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welcome here. Although I told them I did not need a 

 bamboo palisade round my tent for one night, these hos- 

 pitable people, after putting up my tent, placed round it a 

 fence of planks which chanced to be at hand. At dusk 

 everything was in order and I took a walk through the 

 kampong followed by a large crowd which had been pres- 

 ent all the time. 



Having told them to bring all the articles they wanted 

 to sell, I quickly bought some good masks and a number 

 of tail feathers from the rhinoceros hornbill, which are re- 

 garded as very valuable, being worn by the warriors in 

 their rattan caps. All were "in the market," prices were 

 not at all exorbitant, and business progressed very briskly 

 until nine o'clock, when I had made valuable additions, 

 especially of masks, to my collections. The evening 

 passed pleasantly and profitably to all concerned. I 

 acquired a shield which, besides the conventionalised 

 representation of a dog, exhibited a wild-looking picture 

 of an antoh, a very common feature on Dayak shields. 

 The first idea it suggests to civilised man is that its pur- 

 pose is to terrify the enemy, but my informant laughed 

 at this suggestion. It represents a good antoh who keeps 

 the owner of the shield in vigorous health. 



The kapala's house had at once attracted attention 

 on account of the unusually beautiful carvings that ex- 

 tended from each gable, and which on a later occasion I 

 photographed. These were long boards carved in artistic 

 semblance of the powerful antoh called nagah, a benev- 

 olent spirit, but also a vindictive one. The two carv- 

 ings together portrayed the same monster, the one show- 



