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	Pagan Tribes of Borneo By Charles Hose and William McDougall (1912)- Chapter 11 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT ...
		But though a Kayan village is seldom attacked, and though the Kayans do not wantonly engage in bloodshed, yet they will always stoutly assert their rights, and will not allow any injury done to any member of the tribe to go unavenged.
		War is generally undertaken by the Kayans very deliberately, after much preparation and in large well-organised parties, ranging in numbers from fifty to a thousand or more warriors, made up in many cases from several neighbouring villages, and under the supreme command of one chief of acknowledged eminence.
		Kayans conducting a successful attack of this kind will make as many prisoners as possible, and will as a rule kill only those men who make desperate resistance, though occasionally others, even women and children, may be wantonly killed in the excitement of the moment.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/paganborneo/chapter11.html (7955 words)

	UTFSM
		There can, we think, be little doubt that the Kayans are the with them thence all or most of the characteristic culture that we what route, they have come, and how long a time was occupied by the throw out some vague suggestions.
		We believe that the Kayans migrated to Borneo from the basin of the that they represent a part of the Indonesian stock which had remained separation of Borneo, there, through contact with the southward drift a part, therefore, of the Indonesians which is more Mongoloid in Borneo by its separation from the mainland.
		The way in which in Borneo the Kayans hang together and keep touch numerous communities of other tribes are settled, preserving their supposition that the whole tribe.html">tribe may thus have been displaced step by leaving behind any part of the tribe.
	www.findword.org /ut/utfsm.html (358 words)

	Pagan Tribes of Borneo By Charles Hose and William McDougall (1912)- Chapter 22 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT ...
		Three such invasions may be distinguished as of principal importance: that of the Kayans in the south and perhaps in the south-east, of the Muruts in the north, and of the Ibans in the south-west.
		During this long period the Kayans acquired or developed the type of culture characterised by the cultivation of PADI on land newly cleared of jungle by burning, the building of long houses on the banks of rivers, the use of boats, and the working of iron.
		In attempting to identify the nearest relatives of the Kayans among the mainland tribes, it has to be remembered that all these have been subjected to much disturbance, in some cases, no doubt, involving changes of habitat, since the date at which, as we suppose, the Kayans left the continent.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/paganborneo/chapter22.html (6405 words)

	EARLY PHOTOS OF TRIBAL TATTOOS IN BORNEO
		Apo-Kayans - Apo Kayan means the Kayan hill country bordering Sarawak- "A young woman's social position is also indicated, among other things, by the number of rings around the calves of her legs.
		The Kayan and Kenyah (speak different languages) have a caste system recognizing three distinct tiers of society: 1) family and relatives of village chiefs, 2) common villagers, 3) captives of war, outcastes, and vagabonds.
		Kayans - A man is supposed to tattoo one finger only, if he has been present when an enemy has been killed, but tattoos hands and fingers if he has taken an enemy's head.
	www.vanishingtattoo.com /borneo_tattoos.htm (1285 words)

	Guernica / The Dragon Mothers Polish their Metal Coils
		Kayan writer Pascal Khoo Thwe's grandmothers were among a group which made the long journey, "to be taken around Europe by a circus called Bertram Mills and exhibited as freaks." They returned home with English money, photographs of their travels, and accounts of strange sights and customs (moving staircases, tea-time, uncomfortable shoes).
		The Kayan women were told to sing in their quavery down-a-pipe voices when the gawkers got bored with their quiet posing.
		The Kayan women in their metal coils can be presented as freaks, animals, and amusements--but they remain an outright manifestation of defiant power, witchery, and autonomy.
	www.guernicamag.com /features/229/the_dragon_mothers (2298 words)

	FORGING A MANDAU
		But in each Kayan village are to be found two or three or more skilled smiths, who work up for a small fee the metal brought them by their friends, the finishing touches being generally given by the owner of the implement according to his own fancy.
		Stone anvils and hammers were formerly used, and may still be seen in use in the far interior; but the Kayans make iron hammers and an anvil consisting of a short thick bar of iron, the lower end of which is fixed vertically in a large block of wood.
		The Kayan smiths are expert in judging by the colors of the surface the degree and kind of temper produced.
	perso.orange.fr /taman.sari/swords/dayak/mandau_forging.htm (1232 words)

	Footnotes to History- K and L
		Kayans- In June of 1964, Ne Win, the dictator of Burma, introduced a disastrous monetary reform measure.
		Neither the Kayans or the Burmese government have been able to make much headway in the subsequent war.
		Kentucky, Provisional Government of- In April 1861, Kentucky's government chose the better part of valor and declared that the state would be neutral in the looming Civil War.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natkl.htm (5933 words)

	e-Bedian
		When Kayan people exhausted their land in the Apau Kayan area in Kalimantan, they migrated north into Sarawak where they settled in their present locations - midway on the Baram River, the upper Rejang River and the lower Tubau River (where they can still be found in their longhouses).
		Kayan women are distinguishable by tattoos on their hands and their legs.
		The development of the Kayans' lifestyle along with the outside world contributed to the preservation of “ Long Bedian” till today.
	www.unimas.my /ebedian/index.html (419 words)

	Etext » books
		The Kayans are in most respects the most homogeneous of these peoples, the most conservative and distinctive, and present perhaps the richest and most interesting body of belief and custom and art; while many of their customs and arts have been adopted by their neighbours, or are indigenous with them.
		Every Kayan has the shell of the ear perforated, and when fully dressed wears, thrust forward through the hole in each shell, the big upper canine tooth of the tiger-cat; but he is not entitled to wear these until he has been on the warpath.
		The Kenyahs form a less homogeneous and clearly defined tribe than the Kayans; yet in the main their social organisation is very similar to that of the Kayans, although, as regards physical characters and language as well as some customs, they present closer affinities with other peoples than with the Kayans, especially with the Klemantans.
	etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/etext02/ptbor10.txt.html (19103 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Dayak are divided into six groups: the Punans Klemantans, and Kenyahs, who represent the oldest Dayak elements of Borneo, and the Kayans, Muruts, and Ibans, who are later arrivals.
		The Ibans were converted to Islam by the Malays (maintaining at the same time vestiges of pagan worship), intermarried with the Malays, and no doubt influenced the Malay language, which is thought to contain many words of Iban derivation.
		The other Dayak groups, especially the Kayans and Punans, have maintained their ancient customs, habits, and religious beliefs to a much greater extent.
	history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..da018400.a#FWNE.fw..d... (390 words)

	Kayan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There they live with an uncertain legal status in the border area, in villages set up to display them to tourists willing to pay to admire their particular body modification, which consists of coiling lengths of brass around the necks of the women.
		Kayan women, when asked, usually know of these myths, but their own reason for wearing the coils, is that it is a tribal identity, one associated with beauty, and because their mothers wore the rings.
		The biggest Kayan village of Nai Soi receives an average of 1,200 tourists annually and collects an entry fee of 250B per person.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kayan (720 words)

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		It was at Giam Urieng, along the upper reaches of the Batang Rajang, that Imada and his soldiers timidly walked, climbed and slithered to find Asah and his men cooking their evening meal, at the foot of the giam.
		The gunshot was the signal for the rest of the kayans.
		Two kayans cut from the side and behind the hard-pressed man who dripped blood, with his left arm hanging by the skin.
	www.sarawak.com.my /org/hornbill/my/swk/borneo/tan/007.htm (957 words)

	GUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		“About the age of ten years the Kayan boy begins to wear a waist-cloth-- his first garment -- his sister having assumed the apron some two or three years earlier; we are not aware of any ceremony connected with this.
		We must not pass over without mention a peculiar mutilation which is practised by most of the Kayan youths as they approach manhood, namely, the transverse perforation of the GLANS PENIS and the insertion of a short rod of polished bone or hard wood.
		A Kayan youth who has rendered pregnant a girl with whom he has kept company can be relied upon to acknowledge his responsibility and to marry her before her time comes”.
	www2.hu-berlin.de /sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/KAYANS.HTM (435 words)

	Burmanet » Kantarawaddy Times: Kayans can apply for resettlement in third countries - Sharreh
		Though UNHCR has since early this year allowed Karenni refugees to apply for resettlement without any restraint but there were restrictions on brass coil wearing Kayan people who had fled Burma like other refugees.
		The headman of an interviewed family from Kayan Tharyar village said, “We had been waiting [for this opportunity] for a long time.
		Last February, six families from Kayan Tharyar village received letters of approval from UNHCR for resettlement in Finland.
	www.burmanet.org /news/2006/06/08/kantarawaddy-times-kayans-can-apply-for-resettlement-in-third-countries-sharreh (375 words)

	Kayans
		KAYANS est un groupe de reggae " ROOTS ", formé à Reims en 1994.
		KAYANS interprète ses propres compositions, en français, en anglais et en créole.
		Ce travail servira à la promotion de la tournée du groupe KAYANS qui se déroule du 22 juillet au 10 septembre au Bénin.
	www.mediacom-agency.com /html/kayans.htm (949 words)

	Vol 11. No. 2, March 2003 - Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Depicting the life-trajectory of a young man in the 1988 diaspora, Green Ghosts is an intricate kalaga (tapestry) sewn with portraits of elders and comrades, with pleasures and tragedies.
		The Kayans are best known for the women’s brass neck-rings, which create the effect of an elongated neck.
		Later, Kayan women would be put on display in a more sinister setting, as hostages to tourism in a Thai refugee camp.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/2003/vol11.2/book.html (1167 words)

	Beads from Borneo: Kayan Beads
		The Pelang Alan Ba'un Lan ($4.00) is a wound imitation of a 7-layer chevron.
		The Kayan live along the rivers flowing from the interior of Borneo.
		A young Kayan man goes to the coast and works a few years for an oil rig or lumber company.
	www.thebeadsite.com /BBHL-01.html (410 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		At so critical a season every precaution must be used to render the necessary surgical operation of reaping as inconspicuous and as painless as possible.
		Among the Indonesian peoples who thus personify the rice we may take the Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo as typical.
		In order to secure and detain the volatile soul of the rice the Kayans resort to a number of devices.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page414.html (321 words)

	Dayak shields (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It may be said generally that Kayans seldom or never wage war on Kayans, and seldom attack others merely to secure heads or in sheer vain glory, as the Ibans not infrequently do.
		In the finest coats there is a patch of brightly coloured bead-work at the nape of the neck, and the back-flap is adorned with rows of loosely dangling hornbills' feathers; but these again are considered appropriate only to the coats of warriors of proved valour.
		The Murut shields closely resemble those of the Kayans, though the Dusuns, who have the domesticated buffalo, use a shield of buffalo-hide attached to the forearm by a strap - a feature unknown in all the other types, which are borne by the handle only.
	www.era.anthropology.ac.uk /Era_Resources/Era/Pitt_Rivers/shieweap/dayak1.html (1921 words)

	Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands Page 2
		Among the instruments employed for this purpose are a miniature ladder, a spatula, and a basket containing hooks, thorns, and cords.
		And every time that a Kayan housewife fetches rice from the granary for the use of her household, she must propitiate the souls of the rice in the granary, lest they should be angry at being robbed of their substance.
		On the other hand the Toradjas of Central Celebes, who also practice the custom of the Rice-mother at harvest, regard her as the actual mother of the whole harvest, and therefore keep her carefully, lest in her absence the garnered store of rice should all melt away and disappear.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Nonfiction/Religion/Golden/GoldenC46P2.htm (1008 words)

	Swak natives block roads to stop loggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a statement issued on behalf of the Penan, Kayan and Kenyah communities in Baram, Sarawak, environmental non-government agency Friends of the Earth (SAM) today urged the state government and companies involved to meet the natives demands to withdraw from the area or provide them fair and adequate compensation.
		Several Kayans had tied up a logging company manager and brought him to their homes after a dispute broke out between the two parties.
		The Kayans also deny charges that they kidnapped the manager for ransom money but acted in the manner according to their customs for the safety of others and the manager, said SAM.
	www.malaysiakini.com /news/11203 (538 words)

	Ambrosia Software Web Board > Golden Horizon - Part V
		Coming towards the three Kayans waiting to hear the report about the pilot, Scorcher showed them his ID card and explained why he was there; he had heard about the accident, and that he wanted to interview the pilot as soon as he could for his report ot Fed intellegence.
		As the Coalition forces retreated back towards Kayan space, the last of the RA refugees just made it off the planet, but many frieghters were still shot down, and their burning and exploding hulks added to the desolation of the once glorious RA space.
		Five Kayan Gunships were sent to meet the RA fleet, and to guide them to a shipyard/spaceport on the planet Katina in the system of Ebek.
	www.ambrosiasw.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t15360-100.html (19653 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| November 1, 2001: Headlines: COS - Malaysia: Humor: Writing - Malaysia: Jewish: Texas Monthly: ...
		The Kayans, like a tribe of persistent mother hens, would push this combination on every guest, and it was considered extremely bad form to turn down their offering.
		The Kayans had no perceptible plumbing, of course, so you'd simply vomit through the bamboo slits of the porch, or ruai.
		I was well aware that the Kayans, though now a gentle people, had once been headhunters, and I did not want an atavistic moment to occur in which my skull might take its place along with dozens of others in the hanging baskets that festooned the ruai.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2026743.html (1723 words)

	Borneo: The Land of River and Palm, by Eda Green (c. 1909)
		The Kayans do the same, but they carve the skull with elaborate patterns deeply incised into it; the heads are smoked over a wood fire, and when they are not carved the hair and teeth are preserved, and make them look even more horrible.
		The Kayans used to smelt their own ore, and though this is not done so much now, they still excel in ironwork and in the temper of their weapons.
		One is described as having three rows of posts, three in each row; the two end ones going up to the pointed roof were twenty-six feet high, the others twenty-three feet; the room enclosed by them was thirteen feet by twelve feet; this contained four coffins, and the walls were lined by shields and paddles.
	anglicanhistory.org /asia/sarawak/green/03.html (2935 words)

	Etext » books
		The Kayans were glad to provide prahus, the keelless boats which are used by both Dayak and Malay.
		Though the Dutch authorities evidently have stamped out headhunting on the Kayan River, and have even destroyed the heads that were hanging in the houses, smashing them throwing them into the river, the Kayan still speaks of the custom in the present tense.
		On the Kayan River a favoured style of bead is tubular in form, light yellow in hue, and procured from Bugis traders who are said to obtain their stock in New Guinea.
	etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/etext05/8born10.txt.html (22179 words)

	rediff.com: Properties of 11 brokers attached: BS
		The Calcutta brokers appearing in the list are stock exchange heavyweights Shyam Sunder Dalmia, Ajay Kayan, Gaurishankar Kayan and Rahul & Co. Shyam Sunder Dalmia is reputedly one of the biggest badla financiers of the country.
		Sources close to Dalmia and Kayans said that they would file a petition with the Special Court within a day or two.
		Sources close to Kayan said the brokers were "surprised because the six to seven earlier custodians investigating the scam had found nothing.
	www.rediff.com /money/2001/nov/26broker.htm (528 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Dayaks in Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		By its tribal and ethnic identities, the group is constituted of three categories: the Iban (Sea Dayaks); the Bidayuh (Land Dayaks); and the Orang ulu ("peoples of the interior").
		Among them the Ibans are the most cohesive and numerous (68%), while the Orang ulu are the most divided, including various tribal identities such as the Penans, Kayans, Kelabits, etc. Since 1980s the Malaysian government has been trying to bring the Dayaks together and settle the group’s problem due to their economic and social similarity.
		The main grievances of the Dayaks are political underrepresentation, poverty and economic underdevelopment, especially regarding land rights, and the need to improve educational opportunities for group members.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=82002 (836 words)

	Jedi Sith at GameTalk
		The rock flew out of Kayans swinging hand and connected with the other civillian with a sickening crunch.
		Once they were both dead, Icarus moved quickly, the main advantage of his long legs, and reached down to a star shaped rock.
		He quickly reached a small fl case which he threw to Kayan who slipped it into a storage position in his armour.
	www.gametalk.com /talk/jedisith/82409581.htm?hi=bapabwoo0 (459 words)

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