Personal Adornment, Dances, and Musical Instruments 441 



joins with others in the dirge which follows a burial, and he and many 

 others will sing together as they dance the da-eng. But his music 

 does not stop with his vocal accomplishments. In the folk-tales the 

 pan pipe (dew-dciv-as) occupies a most important place, and to-day 

 the maidens still play them in the evening hours. It is a simple device 

 made of reeds of various lengths lashed together (Fig. 26, No. 1). 

 The player holds the instrument just in front of her lips, and blows 

 into the reeds, meanwhile moving them to and fro, producing a series 

 of low notesnvithout tune. 



Another instrument of great importance in the legends is the nose 

 flute (kalaleng). This is a long reed with holes cut in the side, to be 



Fig. 26. 

 Musical Instruments. 



stopped by the fingers in producing the notes. The player closes one 

 nostril with a bit of cotton, and then forces the air from the other into 

 a small hole cut in the end of the tube. The instrument is popular with 

 the men, and often one can hear the plaintive note of the nose flute far 

 into the night (Plate LXXXII). 



The mouth flute (tulali) is similar to that found in civilized lands, 

 but is constructed from a reed. 



A peculiar device used solely by the women is the bunkaka (Fig. 26, 

 No. 2). This consists of a bamboo tube with one end cut away so 



