460 



INDEX 



Mouse-deer, capture of a, 195; supersti- 

 tion concerning, 358 



Moving-pictures shown to natives, 32 



Muara Laong, 113 



Muara Tewe, ill, 112, 150 



Muara Topu, 114 



Mud, taken from pool bottom, 373 



Miiller mountains, home of the Penyah- 

 bongs, 430 



Murder, vendetta resulting from, 354. 

 See also Killing 



Murungs, the, physical appearance of, 

 114; a stay among, 115-118, I24.etseq.; 

 dance of, 117, 118, 136; dress of, 136; 

 soldiers killed by, 137; filing of teeth 

 by, 138; marriage customs of, 138; 

 funeral customs of, 139-141; location 

 of, 142; tatuing of, 317; customs re- 

 garding childbirth, 427, 428; wooden 

 images employed by, 429; belief of, 

 concerning number and location of 

 souls, 445 



Muruts, the, 22, 27 



Musangs, tame, 312 



Museum, nucleus of, in Bandjermasin, 25 



Music, good spirits attracted by, 121, 215, 

 250 



Musical instruments: the drum, 346; the 

 flute, 121; the jews'-harp, 121; the 

 sapi, 431; the sarunai, 303; the shield, 

 121, 215, 249; trumpet, 50; folk-tale 

 about, 409 



Mustaches, 45, 142, 369 



Nagah, good and evil spirit, 122; rep- 

 resented in decorative designs, 237, 308, 

 438; description of, 238; names given 

 to, by different tribes, 438 



Nagasaki, western influence in, 8 



Nahamerang, village of, 439 



Names, in vogue among Katingans, 357; 

 custom of changing, 428 



Naming of children, 356, 357, 428, 431, 



432, 434, 437, 439, 44° 

 Nangca (fruit), 149 

 Napoleonic Wars, the, 19 

 Nasalis larvatus, 16 

 Natives of Borneo. See Dayaks and 



Tribes 

 Necklaces, bead, 68, 77; made of stalks 



of plants, 212; on kapatongs, 332 

 Negara, 311, 312 

 Nepenthes, 16, 151 

 Netherlands India, Governor-General of, 



10, 107-109 

 New Guinea, securing men for expedition 



to, 90, 97; fitting out of expedition to, 



interrupted by war, 107; omen bird 



heard at start of an expedition to, 257 



Newspapers, received at Long Kai, 214 

 Nieuwenhuis, Dr. A. W., 22, 51, 240, 289; 



attempt to kill, 210 

 Nipa palm, 27 

 Nohacilat, aboriginal wearing apparel 



from, 212 

 "Nokken," Norwegian superstition of the, 



122 

 Nomorunge, village of, 431 

 Nose, in Long-Glat leave-taking, 411, 



413 n. 

 Nudity, chasteness of, 215, 290 

 Numbers, sacred, 247, 333, 355, 438 

 Nuncilao, village of, 216 

 Nundun, the, 186, 187 



Oatmeal, 56 



Obongbadjang, folk-tale about, 399 



Oeloe Soungei, district of, 17 



Oil, at Balik Papan, 26 



Oma-Gaai, Kayan sub-tribe, 425 



Oma-Lakan, the, Kayan sub-tribe, 425 



Oma-Lokvi, the, 439 



Oma-Palo, the, 223; festival of, 228, 229 



Oma-Sulings, the, country of, 221; char- 

 acteristics of, 222; and the Long-Glats, 

 222; the great festival of, 223-233; the 

 women of, 232, 233, 266; funeral cus- 

 toms of, 235, 236, 438; hair colour of, 

 246; a second visit to, 264-269; mean- 

 ing of the name, 269; from Apo Kayan, 

 269; weaving no longer done by, 269; 

 villages of, on Upper Mahakam, 269; 

 food of, 275; desire of, for large fam- 

 ilies, 275; included in Orang Bahau, 

 433; beliefs and customs of, 437, 438; 

 customs regarding childbirth, 437; 

 marriage customs of, 437, 438; omen 

 before naming children, 437; sacred 

 numbers of, 438; use by, of nagah in 

 decorative designs, 438 



Oma-Tapi, the, 439 



Ome-Tepe, the, 223 



Omamahak, 280 



Omen birds, 245, 257, 358, 431; not eaten, 

 179, 217; kapatongs of images of, 331 



Omens: fire, before tuba-fishing, 66, 67, 

 85, 86; taken from birds, 79, 81, 245, 

 257, 431; from pig's liver, 67, 123, 227; 

 the centipede, 245; taken by top- 

 spinning, 247, 248; concerning head- 

 hunting, 257, 258; from dreams, 431; 

 from banana leaves before naming 

 children, 437; hunting expeditions 

 abandoned because of, 334; good and 

 evil, among the Katingans, 358, 359 



"Onder," the, 316; head-hunting by, 325 



Ong Sangi, village of, 431 



Onions, white, 226, 413 n. 



