696 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
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A DYAK GIRL DRESSED IN ALI, HER FINERY TO ATTEND A FEAST 
She has in her hair a comb decorated with silver filigree work. Round her neck is a 
necklace of beads. ‘The rings round her body are made of hoops of cane, round which little 
brass rings are arranged close together, so that none of the cane is visible. These hoops are 
worn next to the body, above the waist and over the petticoat below. The silver coins 
fastened to this brass corset, and worn as belts around it, are the silver coins of the country. 
The petticoat is a broad strip of cloth, sewn together at the ends and having an opening at 
the top and bottom. It is fastened at the waist with a piece of string. From “Seventeen 
Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo,” by Edwin H. Gomes. J. B. Lippincott Co. 
