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The designs can best be explained by a reference to Pl. 142, Figs. 2 4; the part of the design marked A is termed BETIK BUAH, fruit pattern; B, betik lawa, trunk pattern; and C, BETIK LULUD, shin pattern.
In the Long Glat thigh-tatu the bands of pattern are not separated by lines of IKOR, as with the Kayans. A of the plate is termed BETIK KULE, leopard pattern, and is supposed to be a representation of the spots on the leopard's skin; it is stated to be taken from a Long Tepai tatu-block; the knuckles are tatued with a double row of wedges, the finger joints with quadrangles.
At Kilef, sixty miles north-west of Balkh, the width of the river is 350 yards; at Khodja Salih, thirty miles lower down, it is 823 yards with a depth of twenty feet; at Kerki, seventy miles below Khodja Salih, it is "twice the width of the Danube at Buda-Pesth," or about 940 yards; at Betik, on the route between Bokhara and Merv, its width has diminished to 650 yards, but its depth has increased to twenty-nine feet.
Tatu design on front of leg of the same Kalabit woman. D = BETIK KARAWIN; E = UJAT BATU, hill-tops. From a drawing. Tatu design on the forearm of an Uma Long woman. From a drawing. Tatu design on arms and torso of a Biajau man of low class. From a drawing by a Maloh. Tatu design on leg of Biajau man of low class. From a drawing by a Maloh. Tatu design on shin of Biajau woman of low class.
From a rubbing of a carved model in the Sarawak Museum. From a tatu-block in the Sarawak Museum. Plate 142. Tatu design on the forearm of a Kalabit woman. From a drawing. Tatu design on front of leg of a Kalabit woman. C = BETIK LULUD, shin pattern. From a photograph. Tatu design on back of leg of a Kalabit woman. A = BETIK BUAH, fruit pattern; B = BETIK LAWA, trunk pattern. From a drawing.
On the forearm are tatued eight bold zigzag bands, one-eighth of an inch broad, which do not completely encircle the arm, but stop short of joining at points on the ulnar side of the middle line on the flexor surface. The series of lines is known as BETIK TISU, the hand pattern. The legs are tatued on the back of the thigh, on the shin, and sometimes on the knee-cap.
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