BORNEO (Indonesia)

 

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(Kayans, Dayak, Dusun, Murungs)

 

 

 

Penis pins are normally installed at puberty or later (see Brown, [1991:p437][1]; Burns, 1849:p149)[2] (cf. Kayans). Lumholtz (1920/1992)[3] notes the absence of puberty rites among the PENYAHBONGS, DUHOI (Ot-Danums), and the existence of a menarche rite among the OMA-SULINGS.

 

Featured: Kayans, Dayak, Dusun, Murungs

 

 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume I. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 


[1] Brown, D. E. ([1991]) The penis pin: an unsolved problem in the relations between the sexes in Borneo, in Sutlive, V. H. (Ed.) Female and Male in Borneo. Williamsburg: Borneo Research Council, p435-54

[2] Burns, R. (1849), in J Indian Archip & Eastern Asia 3:[p149]

[3] Lumholtz, C. (1920 [1992]) Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920 / Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press 1992 [Project Gutenberg]