Geometrical serial designs, discs, ? isolated designs.
Arm from shoulders to wrist; calf of leg.
? Ornament.
[female]
Designs employed by Kayan [male] [male]
Forearms and legs.
? Ornament.
Lepu Lutong [female]
Simple geometrical design.
Forearm and back of hand.
Uma Tow [male]
? ? same as Kayan designs.
[female]
Simple geometrical designs (low-cla.s.s [female]
[female]), anthropomorphic designs, copied from other tribes (high-cla.s.s [female] [female]).
Forearm and back of hand, front and sides of the thigh and the shin.
Some.
Long Glat and Uma Luhat.
[male]
? not at all.
[female]
Complicated serial designs, chiefly of zoomorphic MOTIF.
As with Kayan [female] [female], but also with lines round the ankles. Tatu of forearms not so extensive.
Chiefly ornament, for use in the next world.
Kalamantan.
Uma Long [female]
Simple geometrical design ("stippled") Forearm and back of hand.
Dusun [male]
Lines Stomach, breast, arm.
None Partly as tally of enemies slain.
Murut [male]
Scroll designs and circles Above the knee-cap; on the breast (Practice obsolescent).
None.
[female]
Parallel lines.
Arm and back of hand.
? None.
? Ornament.
Kalabit [male]
As with Dusuns As with Dusuns ?
[female]
Zigzags and chevrons.
Forearms, the lower part of the leg.
Very little.
Long Utan [female]
Complicated serial geometrical designs.
As with Long Glat.