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Title: Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922
Subjects: Ethnology -- Borneo Natural history -- Borneo Borneo -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ad noless than ten teeth filed off, the four incisors and threemore on either side. The operation is performed when aboy or girl becomes full-grown. For the boys it is not apainful experience, but the girls have theirs filed muchshorter, which causes pain and loss of blood. The Punans make fire by iron and flint which arecarried in a small bamboo box. They are expert re-garding the manufacture of the sumpitan (blow-pipe),and are renowned for their skill in using this weapon andcan make the poisonous darts as well as the bamboocaskets in which these are carried. Subsisting chieflyupon meat, their favourite food is wild pig. At the birth of a child all the men leave the premises,including the husband. The dead are buried in theground a metre deep, head toward the rising sun. ThePunans climb trees in the same manner as the Kayansand other Dayaks I have seen, /. r., by tying their feet to-gether and moving up one side of the tree in jumps.The Kayans in climbing do not always tic the feet.
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