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The home-life of Borneo head-hunters : Its festivals and folk-lore

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The home-life of Borneo head-hunters : Its festivals and folk-lore

by William Henry Furness

EN·~8 hours·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total

*This Edition, with Heliotype plates, is

0:34

PREFACE

4:06

ILLUSTRATIONS.

4:33

THE HOME-LIFE OF BORNEO HEAD-HUNTERS ITS FESTIVALS AND FOLK-LORE

0:04

HOME-LIFE

39:04

CEREMONIES AT THE NAMING OF A CHIEF’S SON

1:32:54

EARLY TRAINING OF A HEAD-HUNTER

33:35

A WAR EXPEDITION

1:15:27

‘JAWA’ OR PEACE-MAKING

1:59:15

PERSONAL EMBELLISHMENT

37:28

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Duration

~8 hours (481K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1902.

Credits

Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-09-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71656

Subjects

Borneo -- Description and travel Ethnology -- Borneo Folklore -- Borneo Kayan (Bornean people)Kenyah (Southeast Asian people)GN

About the author

William Henry Furness

1866–1920

A physician turned explorer, he wrote vivid accounts of the South Pacific and Borneo shaped by firsthand travel, photography, and close observation. His books opened a window onto Yap and other Pacific cultures for early 20th-century readers.

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