{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "bungai-terung",
 "type": "motif",
 "names": {
  "name": "The aubergine flower"
 },
 "region": [
  "island-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "does": "passage"
 },
 "mark": {
  "does": "*Bungai terung*, worn on each shoulder when a young Iban man leaves home on his journey.",
  "where": [
   "chest",
   "arms"
  ],
  "earned": false
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "*Bungai terung*, worn on each shoulder when a young Iban man leaves home on his journey.",
  "story": "A spiral at the centre stands for the tendril of a pumpkin plant; the mark is put on before the journey, not after it. A tattoo that anticipates rather than records."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ดอกมะเขือ สวมที่ไหล่ทั้งสองข้างเมื่อชายหนุ่มอิบันออกเดินทางจากบ้าน"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "iban-borneo",
   "as": "The tradition it belongs to.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-iban-people"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-iban-people"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}