Beauty is a high ideal for Ibanic women, just as courage in headhunting is a male ideal. No better illustration of the conjunction of male and female contributions to the cycle of regeneration can be found than in part of the ritual in which a newly taken trophy head was received at a long house. Standing at the top of long-house steps, the woman received the head from the successful warrior, wrapping it in her charm, pua blanket. (Drake/Expedition. Special issue on Borneo)