Plate 18 Rumah Uluyong, a
traditional Iban longhouse, Kapit,
Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia. Many
Iban continue to live in longhouses
like this one. Longhouses are
actually individual family apart-
ments with a long connecting
verandah (see pp. 417–422).Plate 19 Mortuary rites, Borneo.
Secondary treatment of the body,
a year or so after death, when
the bones are removed from the
coffin, washed, wrapped, and
returned to the longhouse for
final ceremonial honoring, during
which the soul is directed to its
final abode in the ancestral village
(see pp. 418–421).Color Insert.indd 15 4/23/2018 11:06:26 AM