INDEX 



Aaton Kohang (antoh), tale of, 383, 384 



Acidosis, cure of, 57 



Ado, harvest festival at, 300 



Adventures in Pursuit of Magic, folk-tale, 



4°? 



Agility, of natives, 195 

 Agriculture, vast possibilities for, 17 

 Ah Sewey, photographer, 30, 32, 33, 104 

 Airplane, foreshadowed in folk-tale, 272, 



409, 413 n. 

 Ajo River, the, 112 

 Akieh, Doctor Tjon, 1 12 

 Alcohol, from rice and from sugar-cane, 78 

 Alfurs of Central Celebes, resemblance of 



Katingans to, 441 

 Amban Klesau, boatman, 71, 72, 85 

 Amenaran, folk-tale about, 391 

 Amon Amang, the fatherless boy, 388, 



389. 



Aneitjing, legend of, 392-395 



Angkipi, 298, 299 



Animals, of Borneo, 16; of the jungle, 

 38, 39, 41; of Central Borneo, 186-189; 

 laughing at, feared by Long-Glats, 274; 

 Mrs. Meyer's collection of, 31 1; Dayak 

 belief concerning souls of, 365, 445. 

 See also Blood of sacrificed animals 



Annandale, Doctor N., 272 



Ant-eater, the scaly, 131; supposed to 

 bring good luck, 359 



Anthracite coal, 16 



Antimony, 16 



Antiquities, Hindu, 285-289 



Antoh Who Married a Saputan, The, folk- 

 tale, 389 



Antohs (good and evil spirits), various 

 designations for, 119; shape usually 

 assumed by, 120; kinds of, 120; haunts 

 of, 120, 200; sacrifices to attract good, 

 120, 121, 202, 233; attracted by music 

 and dancing, 121; the nagah, 122, 237, 

 238; the sangiang, 122, 123; three 

 birds that call, 122; disease caused by 

 evil, 124; at ear-piercing operation, 

 202, 203; singing to attract, 215, 216, 

 251; food offered to, 202, 203, 225, 231, 

 249, 25 1 ; evil, ejected by singing, 249- 

 251; represented on kapatongs, 330- 

 332; flying prahu presented to, 336; 

 sacrifice to, at rice-planting, 338, 339; 

 at harvest feast, 340; at funeral feast, 



341; guarding the dead, 352; in croco- 

 diles, 353; in trees, 357, 358; represen- 

 tation of, on the sapundo, 364; evil, 

 416 n.; placed in the world by, belief 

 of natives, 430, 431; the nagah in dec- 

 orative designs, 438; names given to 

 nagah by different tribes, 438; drawing 

 of flying prahu presented to, 441 ; folk- 

 tales about, 383, 385, 386, 389, 391, 395, 

 398, 401, 409, 415 



Ants, in the jungle, 42, 43; a raid by, 89, 

 90; along Busang River, 189 



Apes, 39, 133, 150, 189, 194, 275, 329, 359 



Apo Kayan, 22, 432; trading expedition 

 from, 53, 59-61; the garrison in, 95, 96, 

 426; head-hunting in, 96; relics from, 

 231; Oma-Sulings from, 269; home of 

 the Long-Glats, 272; Kenyans of, 425; 

 the Oma-Lakans of, 425 



Aptitude, of natives, 421, 422 



Arabs, in Borneo, 17; conversion of Java 

 by, 18 



Artistic character of natives, 421 



Artocarpus integrifoha, 149 



Asia: Borneo, Java and Sumatra for- 

 merly parts of, 14 



Astronomical device for determining best 

 time for rice-planting, 443, 444 



Auguries. See Omens. 



Australia, sun disregarded by blacks of, 

 271 



Baggage, story of excessive charge for 

 carrying, 105; opening of many pieces 

 of, 113 



Bahandang, arrival at, 160 



Bahau River, the, 425; inhabited at source 

 only, 426; tribes from, 432, 433 



Bahau tribes, the, 210 et seq. 



Bahau-Kenyah tribe, 22 



Bakas (hereditary rajas), 245, 354 



Bakkaang River, the, 192, 193 



Bakompai, the, 321; characteristics of, 



343 

 Balei, the (house of worship), 298, 299, 



301, 307, 308 

 Bali, 346, 347 



Balik Papan, oil-producing centre, 26 

 Balok tribe, the, 376 

 Bamboo, abundance of, in Borneo, 15; 



sumpitan darts carried in cases made 



449 



