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is decided. If after two trials the same result is obtained 

 the proposed name is considered appropriate. Also on 

 the occasion of marriage, a similar sacrifice and the same 

 curative practice are used. 



When couples tire of each other they do not quarrel. 

 The husband seeks another wife and she another hus- 

 band, the children remaining with the mother. The 

 sacred numbers of the Oma-Sulings are four, eight, and 

 sixteen. Contact with a woman's garment is believed 

 to make a man weak, therefore is avoided. 



The interpretation of designs in basketwork, etc., is 

 identical with the Oma-Sulings and the Penihings, though 

 the women of the last-named tribe are better informed 

 on the subject. 



The antoh usually recognised by the name nagah, 

 is called aso (dog) lidjau by the Oma-Sulings and Long- 

 Glats, while among the Penihings and Punans it is known 

 as tjingiru, but nagah is the name used also in Southern 

 Borneo, where I frequently noticed it in designs. On 

 the Mahakam few are the Oma-Suling and Long-Glat 

 houses which are not decorated with an artistic repre- 

 sentation of this antoh. Among the Penihings in Long 

 Tjehan I never saw a sword hilt carved with any other 

 motif. On the knife-handle it is also very popular. 



There are three modes of disposing of the dead: by 

 burying in the ground a metre deep; by depositing the 

 coffin in a cave, or by making a house, called bila, inside 

 of which the coffin is placed. A raja is disposed of ac- 

 cording to either the second or third method, but the or- 

 dinary people of the kampong are placed in the ground. 



