Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

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This kayan Head Hunter,
Who Posed With Great Dig
nifty While the Rance Painted
His Portrait Does Not Wear
the Customary Ear Tusks 10
Denote His Achievements,
But Has the Elongated Ear
LObes Common Among the
Natives.
girl ever IS married in the house
she expects 10 live in.
The bride wore a short sarong
edged with silver bells. round her
waist she had several coils of
brass chain and her brass corset
reached up 10 her armpits She
wore many necklaces. rings and
bracelets and high-towering
comb with silver spangles was
in her bobbed hair Most Of the
Dyak girls have bobbed hair now
that we have beauty parlor in
Sarawak. Her fingenails wore
bright polish like-my own.
But there was one homogeneous
thing about this young girl She
had n r,,rg.I.ft, t,+btt, No. 80 Tn1aa
teeth, and she grinncd constantly
TO show them off because she was
SO proud Of them. Years ago all
the enamel had been filed off her
own teeth for II long has been a
fashion in Sarawak for the ma
tives TO have black teeth, filed 20
sharp points Now many Of them
have decided white teeth are
nicer and have their own pulled
oat and false ones put in.
In place of a brides bouquet
the girl carried bunch Of large
silver buttons, measuring two
inches in diameter. Her jewelry
and ornaments were so heavy
she could scarcely walk.
The bridegroom wore only a
scarlet loin cloth grass bracelets
on his wrists and below his knees
bead necklaces around his throat
and the wildcat tusks in his ears
indicating that he was a true
hcad-hunter
TIE wedding ceremony was
] simple The chewing Of some
betel-nut and brewing of rice A
banana was split in half so the
seeds might be consulted 20 sec
what the future had IN store for
the couple
Dyak men. unlike the Moham-
mcdan Malays OF Sarawak, have
only one wife that is one at a
tiue. Yet they often have many
wives in their iifetimes Getting
a divorce Is so easy that women
frequently have many husbands
too
How many a white woman will
sigh over its simplicity until she
realizes that such a custom in
her own country would leave her
without any hold at all on her
man
a woman in Sarawak may get
mp IN the morning and say 20 her
husband that she has dreamed
she will die If she doesn't divorce
him He doesn't even dare 10
question this but lets her go A
man, too. can dream that it will
bc bad luck for him to keep his
wife so ne gets rid Of her And
who. even In the mysterious
East is able 20 check up on
dreams
And even these can be dis
penscd with If a woman finds
herself tied TO man who is not
willing 10 work or who is sick
and can't work she promptly
leaves him II he gets well she
may come back But II she di-
vorccs him she doesn't pay ali
mony Just a fine OF one small
lar. worth about one dollar Of
American money
The price Of a woman comes a
little higher If the man gets
divorce he must pay two jars.
And if his wife has taken a new
lover the husband may decide TO
keep her anyway provided she
is a good worker and charge the
other man the tremendous sum Of
twelve small jars or one big one
for the affair
Divorcing a woman because
she cannot have children would
bc considered a good reason IN
Sarawak but this rarely happens