brass-encircled

Updated: August 5, 2026

As in the present case, the brass-encircled young Dayak women are generally the cause of these head-hunts, as they often refuse to marry a man unless he has one or more heads, and in many cases a man is absolutely driven to get a head if he wishes to marry.

H. Wilfrid Walker - Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines