designThe aubergine flower
| Where it goes | chest, arms |
|---|
What it is
Bungai terung, worn on each shoulder when a young Iban man leaves home on his journey.
The long version
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.
Connected to
- Iban tattooing The tradition it belongs to.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Iban people — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Iban people — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there