IN BORNEAN FORESTS 



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in which many families live, is composed of separate houses with 

 only a few families in each. The houses are rather scattered, 

 taking advantage of the local conditions, and mostly built in places 

 not easily accessible. 



The principal article of dress amongst the Land-Dyaks is the 

 "jawed" already described, once generally made of bark-cloth, but 

 now that they have grown richer often of foreign manufacture, or 

 else of a strong cotton cloth with variously coloured designs, woven 



GIRL OF THE LAND-DYAKS. 



by the women on a very primitive loom (Fig. 13). They also use a 

 cotton head-cloth, or one of bark-cloth of a yellow colour, but they 

 do not wear it with the nattiness and elegance of the Sea-Dyaks. 

 The women have the same kind of clothing and ornaments as 

 their sisters among the Sea-Dyaks — a short petticoat and similar 

 ornaments of brass and shell on the arms and legs (Fig. 18). 

 In many villages they wear a broad belt of bark-cloth called " sala- 



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