THE NATIVES OF SARAWAK AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.

Roth, Henry Ling.

Published by Kuala Lumpur: Univ. of Malaya Press, 1980

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Facsimile reprint of 1896 Edition. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. xxxii + 464pp. + iv + 302pp. + ccxl. Numerous ills., folding map, folding plate. Bookseller ink stamp to tail of title pages, chipped turquoise d/ws., faded. An exhausting and comprehensive work, with details of geographical distribution, physique, character, childbirth and children, marriage, disposal of the dead, religion, feasts festivals and dancing, medicine men and women, pathology, legends, daily life food fire and narcotics, agriculture land tenure and domestic animals, hunting and fishing, habitations, weaving dyeing and dressmaking, fashionable deformities, painting and tatuing, war and weapons, head-hunting, the sumpitan and other poisons, peace slaves and captives human sacrifices cannibalism, government trade mining menusuration and natural productions, boating swiming and riding, music, language name and colours, archćology jars writing negritoes, etc. With appendices on vocabularies, ethnographical notes translated from Dr. Schwaner's "Borneo", notes from Mrs Pryer's " A Decade in Borneo" and Prof. Kükenthals "Forschungsreise", notes on skull measurements. Additional postage may be necessary US$177.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE NATIVES OF SARAWAK AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
• Publisher: Kuala Lumpur: Univ. of Malaya Press
• Publication Date: 1980
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