The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters, Its Festivals and Folk-lore
By William Henry Furness
Length8h 53m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "While to scenery, it is distance,—and photography,—which lends enchantment, it is, on the contrary, propinquity which, in my experience, lends to the Borneo Head-Hunters and to their Home-life, a charm which cannot be wholly dispelled even by the skulls hanging from the rafters of their houses. After living among them, for months at a time, an insight is gained into their individualities and peculiarities which a casual sojourn can never disclose. Some, of course, are ill-tempered, crotchety, selfish; others, again, are mild, gentle, generous. The youths have their languishing loves, which they are eager to confide to sympathetic ears. The maidens are coy, or demure, or bashful, when their lovers are near, and delight in teasing and tormenting. The Bornean mothers and fathers think their babies the prettiest that ever were born; and the young boys are as boyish as school-boys here at home, and are quite as up to all mischief."
Audiobook details
GenreTravel, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2ILLUSTRATIONS.
3HOME-LIFE
4CEREMONIES AT THE NAMING OF A CHIEF’S SON
5EARLY TRAINING OF A HEAD-HUNTER
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6A WAR EXPEDITION
7‘JAWA’ OR PEACE-MAKING
8PERSONAL EMBELLISHMENT
9PERMANTONG, OR LALI A BORNEAN SPECIES OF TABOO
10THE PUNANS
11TUBA-FISHING
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