Fighting Jacket Ornament

Beadwork. Tagok. Sunang. For back of war coats. Butterfly-shaped patch of yellow and black beadwork. Across top a line of alternating yellow and black small beads, around other three edges a fringe consisting of short strings of small yellow, red and black beads. "All the women, too, and the girls . . . stitched, on the backs of war-coats, horn-bill feathers, or big butterflies embroidered in black and yellow beads." "The ornament of bead-work, shaped like a butterfly . . . is the feminine contribution toward the decoration of the war-coat." (The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters)