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IN SUMATRA. 



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beam, or Tailan-luaii^ that resting on the pillars^ we have the 

 carving represented on page 186, and called tata huhur'taUm ; 

 the second figure represents the carving on the Paltatan, or 

 the lower beam of the framework of the house; Avhere the 

 tata simhar commences the designs, followed 

 aican, which either continut^s the 



the tata 



whol 



o length of the beam alter- 



nately revei-sed till it is closed 

 again by a second tata simhar^ or 



both 



are 



used 



throughout alter- 





nately erect and reversed. Th 

 interior of the raised portion is 

 either left uncarved or is adorned 

 with the foliage and flowers, of 

 which the outlines appear in the 



design. 



This is th 





Ogan pattern 



TATA UAIIO-RAMO. 



2>ar excellence. On the door-posts 

 I found in some houses tata ramo- 



ramo (ramo means, wild beast) which is not true Ogan^ but 

 adopted from the Semindo people, and it is extremely interest- 

 ing to observe how effective an ornament has resulted from 

 the representation of a tiger or some such animal, in which the 



eE:Mim)0 



,rNG — ox 



IN rEXGAXDONAN. 



eye has become a floral ornament, and the legs and tail have 



developed into scrolls. 



On the last day of my stay here I spent a forenoon with my 

 host in seeing the sports still going on at the neighbouring 

 village of Luntar, which were preliminary to a feast which 

 was to close the some twenty days' festivities— a sort of 

 high pagan mass for the rest of the soul of its Chiefs father. 

 In the village was collected a large crowd from surround- 



ing margas 



and even from as fiir as Palembang, the scene 



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