Through Central Borneo An Account Of Two Years' Travel In The Land Of The Head-Hunters Between The Years 1913 And 1917 By Carl Lumholtz




























































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Mandau, Dayak short sword (= parang).
mandur, overseer.

nagah, fabulous animal, the apparition of a spirit.

onder, native subdistrict chief.
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Mandau, Dayak Short Sword (= Parang). Mandur, Overseer.

Nagah, fabulous animal, the apparition of a spirit.

Onder, native subdistrict chief. orang, man.

paddi, rice. parang, Dayak short sword (= mandau). pasang-grahan, public lodging-house. pisau, small knife. plandok, mouse-deer (tragulus). prahu, native boat. pumbakal, chief (= kapala).

raja, a native chief, or noble. raja besar, big raja. ringit, the Dutch coin of f. 2.50. rupia, florin, guilder. rusa, deer.

sambir, mat made from palm leaves. sarong, a cloth wound around the loins. sayur, vegetable stew. sumpitan, blowpipe.

takut, timid. ticcar, mat made from rattan. tin, five-gallon tin can. tingang, great hornbill. tingeling, scaly ant-eater. tuak, native rice brandy. tuan, master, lord. tuan besar, great master or lord. tuba, root used for poisoning the water for fishing purposes.

utan, jungle, woods.

wah-wah, gibbon, a long-armed monkey. wang, coin, money.

INDEX

Aaton Kohang (antoh), tale of

Acidosis, cure of

Ado, harvest festival at

Adventures in Pursuit of Magic, folk-tale

Agility, of natives

Agriculture, vast possibilities for

Ah Sewey, photographer

Airplane, foreshadowed in folk-tale

Ajo River, the

Akieh, Doctor Tjon

Alcohol, from rice and from sugar-cane

Alfurs of Central Celebes, resemblance of Katingans to

Amban Klesau, boatman

Amenaran, folk-tale about

Amon Amang, the fatherless boy

Aneitjing, legend of

Angkipi

Animals, of Borneo; of the jungle; of Central Borneo; laughing at, feared by Long-Glats; Mrs. Meyer's collection of; Dayak belief concerning souls of. See also Blood of sacrificed animals

Annandale, Doctor N.

Ant-eater, the scaly; supposed to bring good luck

Anthracite coal

Antimony

Antiquities, Hindu

Antoh Who Married a Saputan, The, folktale

Antohs (good and evil spirits), various designations for; shape usually assumed by; kinds of; haunts of; sacrifices to attract good; attracted by music and dancing; the nagah; the sangiang; three birds that call; disease caused by evil; at ear-piercing operation; singing to attract; food offered to; evil, ejected by singing; represented on kapatongs; flying prahu presented to; sacrifice to, at rice-planting; at harvest feast; at funeral feast; guarding the dead; in crocodiles; in trees; representation of, on the sapundo; evil; placed in the world by, belief of natives; the nagah in decorative designs; names given to nagah by different tribes; drawing of flying prahu presented to; folktales about

Ants, in the jungle; a raid by; along Busang River

Apes

Apo Kayan trading expedition from; the garrison in; head-hunting in; relics from; Oma-Sulings from; home of the Long-Glats; Kenyahs of; the Oma-Lakans of

Aptitude, of natives

Arabs, in Borneo; conversion of Java by

Artistic character of natives

Artocarpus integrifoha

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