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a cover. At one end is carved the head of Panli, an antoh, 

 and at the other his tail. Many vestments are put on 

 the corpse, and for a man a parang is placed by his side 

 within the coffin. The house is then made and the coffin 

 placed inside. 



DUHOI (Ot-Danums) 

 (Notes from the Samba River, Southwestern Borneo) 



The new-born child is washed with water of that 

 which is brought to the mother, and the afterbirth is 

 thrown into the river. Most of the women, after bear- 

 ing a child in the morning, walk about in the afternoon, 

 though some have to wait a few days. Their food for 

 some time is rice and fish, abstaining from salt, lombok 

 (red pepper), fat, acid, and bitter food, also meat. 



Seven days after birth the child is taken to the river 

 to be bathed. On its return blood from a fowl or, if 

 people are well to do, from a pig that has been sacri- 

 ficed, is smeared on its forehead and chest, and a name 

 is given. The presence of the blian not being required, 

 the parents give the name, which is taken from a plant, 

 tree, flower, animal, or fish. A wristlet is placed around 

 each wrist and the name is not changed later in life. 

 There are no puberty nor menstruation ceremonies. No 

 sexual intercourse is permissible while a woman is preg- 

 nant, nor during menstruation, nor during the first three 

 months after childbirth. Cousins may marry. 



Evidence of polyandry is found among the Duhoi. 

 Eight years previous to my visit on the river Braui lived 

 for six years a woman blian about thirty years old, who 



