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KINA BALU. 
Dusuns call this article. Hair is seldom allowed to grow on the face, most men being 
provided with a small pair of tweezers, with which they jerk out all stray specimens, the 
importation of small looking-glasses by ourselves giving a fresh impetus to these hair- 
jerkers. One old man here had a long grey beard, and was the only bearded Dusun I ever 
MELANGKAP DUSUNS. 
saw. Teeth are filed down short and blackened; this does much in a European’s idea to 
spoil the good looks of these people, but they equally object to the long white teeth of 
Europeans. Some of the men are slightly tattooed with a few parallel short lines on 
the forearm. The costume of the male Dusun consists of a pair of loose Chinese-cut 
trousers of blue trade-cloth, fastened round his waist by a long piece of turkey-red ; their 
jackets are often tight, especially in the sleeves, and are adorned down the front with many 
rows of white china buttons, eight in a row; round the head is tied a red or blue head- 
cloth. A short useful chopper is always carried and occasionally a light spear. When on 
excursions many wear the chawat and occasionally a bark coat; but these coats are poorly 
made when compared with those of the Muruts. 
The Dusun women have perhaps one of the most picturesque dresses of all Bornean 
tribes. They wear a fairly long petticoat of home-made cloth dyed indigo-blue; above 
this skirt and over it for a few inches are coils of black and red rattan; below these hang 
rows of red beads closely threaded to a depth of six inches or so; sometimes numerous 
brass chains hang above the beads. The bright metal cylinders worn by the Patatan 
women were seldom worn by the Dusuns round Kina Balu. Until they are mothers a strip 
of blue trade-cloth is worn over the breasts, which is kept in its place by numerous coils 
of red rattan; these coils, like those round the waist, are tied together in quantities of six 
or eight. The women file their teeth like the men; their eyebrows are shaved into 
narrow arched lines; as a rule, the right ear only is pierced. Their coiffure is simple, the 
hair being tied in a knot on the top of the head, through which a bone hair-pin attached to 
a string of beads is stuck, the beads being wound round the base of the knob. Some of 
