Author: GOMES, E.H.
Title: Children of Borneo. 1st.
Description: Edinburgh & London, S.P.C.K., 1912. Small 8°, original blind-tooled lettered cloth, coloured ills. on upper boards, 93pp. Coloured frontisp., 7 coloured plates, 16pp. of publ. adverts. Plates (a.o.) depicting Dayak dress, arms & armour, houses. Incl. chapters on Dayak babies & children, manner of life, occupations, head-hunting, the witch-doctor, omens and dreams, marriage & death, burial-customs, beliefs & superstitions, &c. Being merely a propaganda-booklet for the SPGFP & her missionaries in Borneo. Rare.

Keywords: borneo/mission/juvenile