Deutsch: Lirongfrau mit lang ausgedehnten Ohrläppchen.
English: Lirong woman with heavily extended earlobes.
English: A lirong woman (Klemantan) of the Tinjar river. The lobe of the ear of Kayan and Kenyah women is pierced at an early age. When the hole is sufficiently large a copper ring, about three-quarters of an inch in thickness, is slipped in, and from time to time others are added, until sometimes, when the lobe has been distended to below the collar-bone, the weight on each ear is as two and a half pounds.
From: Buschan, Georg (1900): Die Sitten der Völker, Vol. I, plate 260, page 217.
"The Pagan Tribes of Borneo" photo: Charles Hose, 1912. Customs of the World ca. 1912
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