CHAPTER V

HEAD-HUNTING

Head-hunting—Women an incentive—Gruesome story—Marriage of

Dyak Chiefs—Legend—Some customs necessitating a human head—A

successful head-hunter not necessarily a hero—A dastardly

crime—War expeditions—The spear token—My experience at a

village in Krian—Dyak war costume—Weapons—The _Sumpit_—Poison

for darts—Consulting omen birds—War-boats—Camping—War

Council—Defences—War alarm—Ambushes—Decapitation and treatment

of head—Return from a successful expedition—Women dancing—Two

Christian Dyak Chiefs—Their views on the matter of head-taking 72-85

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