Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Marriage.

The marriage ceremony practiced by the people of Borneo is said to be very short and single. Bride and groom are brought £ut before the assembled crowd with great solemnity and seated side by side. A betel nut is then cut in .two by the medicine woman of the tribe, and one-half is given to the groom. Theybegin to chew the .nut, ’ and then, the old woman, after some sort of' incantation, knocks their heads together and they are declared man and wife.