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In Borneo this apparatus is called Ampallang, in Celebes, Kambiong, and its use is so general, its effect so esteemed, that the Dajak women have an actual right of demanding the application of this instrument by the men. Refusal would be a ground for divorce. That is not enough. In Celebes the stimulative effect of the Kambiong is further supported by the eyelids and eye-lashes of a buck that are tied around the margin of the glans (Fig. 20), which in Java are replaced by strips of goat-skin. The Araucanians of South America seem to make use of similar devices; they apply to the same part little bristles of horse hair, the so-called geskels." (Felix Bryk, "Die Beschneidung bei Mann und Weib")

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