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

Sep 15, 2023

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 Philadelphia physician turned explorer, he wrote vivid accounts of the Pacific and Borneo based on firsthand travel and observation. His books helped introduce many Western readers to the cultures, objects, and customs he encountered abroad.

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