ABSTRACT
Head-dress and coiffure involve ideas of ornament and distinction in a more marked degree than anyother forms of dress. As the various methods of draping and tying developed with man's familiarity with sheet-dress, the later form of loin-cloth naturally superseded the earlier. The ordinary male attire of the Dayaks of Borneo consists of a sirat or waist-cloth, a labong or head-dress, and a takai buriet or seat-mat; the full dress consists of the with the addition of a klambi or jacket, and a iangdong or shawl. The social significance of dress is well brought out in mourning customs, among which it is the most prominent. Colour in dress involves many problems of aesthetic, psychological, and biological importance. A constant tendency may be observed for the colour of the dress of the sacred world to be the precise opposite of that of the profane. Foot-gear and head-dress show an evolution as varied, caeris paribus, as dress in general.
