Fighting Jacket Ornament

Fighting jacket ornament. Tagok. Sunang. For back of war coats. Butterfly-shaped patch of yellow and black beadwork. Around other three edges a fringe consisting of short strings of small yellow, red and black beads. Accents of white, red, and black beads, including a red triangle outlined with small white beads center top and, below, a trapezoid surmounted by two triangles. "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)