A Philadelphia physician-ethnologist lived for months at a time in the longhouses of the Kayan and Kenyah peoples of Borneo. He describes the naming of a chief’s son, a boy’s training as a warrior, war expeditions and peace-making ceremonies, tattooing and ornament, taboos, and the legends told around the fire.
Affectionate, detailed early ethnography; its outlook is that of 1902. Download the free EPUB.