The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations

A comprehensive ethnographic study of Borneo's indigenous peoples that surveys the islands' geography and history and provides detailed accounts of material culture, social organization, agriculture, longhouse and riverine lifeways, hunting and jungle subsistence, craft production and decorative arts, and practices of warfare including head‑taking. It explores spiritual ideas, concepts of the soul, animistic relationships with animals and plants, magical rites, myths, and stages of childhood and youth; includes discussion of moral and intellectual characteristics, ethnic relations, and an appendix presenting physical measurements and observations derived from extended fieldwork and interviews.