Ceremonial
Dress:
Some
description may well be given here of the dress worn by the women of tuaran
dusun lotud on ceremonial occasions, as this differs vary materially from that
in everyday use. The ceremonial head dress consists of stiff bunches of
feathers, those of the cock or the argues pleasant are used, cut and dress into
the form of a shuttlecock, having a long pin of bamboo fixed into the under
surface. They are ornamented at the top with pieces of red cloth, and are
insert into the hair so as to form a sort of crest running backward from the
front of the head, where, owing to the hair being piled up, the hindermost
clump of feathers is the most elevated, the crest thus having an upward slop
from front to back. From the top of both the foremost and also of the
hindermost tuft of feather depends a string of green beetles wing. Below the
crest of the feathers there surrounds the head a fillet of red cloth backed
with rattan cane, which is ornamented with oblong and square plate of silver
gilt; these are embossed with various patterns. The body from the neck to the
waist is clothed, in most cases, in a tight fitting blue or black jacket of
Chinese cloth, and over this is an elaborately draped scarf of Borne an
manufacture. These scarves, which are very old, are said they are very high
valued, and are only worn on occasions of ceremony. Their color is generally is
a mixture of red and yellow. Around the waist are red, black or natural colored
rings made of rattan cane, such as are affected by all dusun lotud tuaran
women. Below these is a short ceremonial skirt of variegated cloth, the
material of which resembles that of a scarf, and this also is old and
considered very valuable. The majority of the dusun lotud women taking part in
the ceremonies wear round their necks and hanging down the breast, long, many-folded
necklaces composed of old Chinese and Dutch beads; among these are round beads
of cornelian, and also long bugles of the same stone, strung on the necklaces
are long, ornaments of embossed silver, from about 3 to 31/2 inches long, which
are hollow, but are filled with plugs of wood round at the top. The cones are
so disposed on the chain that they hang in pair with their points directed
downwards to form a sloping series on each side of the jacket. This necklace
are termed a “KAMUGGI”, and a good specimen of many folds will often fetch a
good price.
Another
form of ceremonial neck ornament as the “OKOB”, together with an inferior
specimen of the :KAMUGGI” ..............
A) Women head-dress of cocks feathers. The four tufts of feathers are fastened to bamboo pin which are inserted into a receptacle of palm-wood, usd as a mere holder.
B) Ceremonial necklace (kamuggi).
C) Ceremonial necklace (Okob),The plaques are of silver;backe with copper-The head mark 1 are of cornelian.
D) Tetubit used in ceremony of menghadji padi X 1/4.
e) Tetubit used in menghadji for sickness X 1/4.
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