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tribe who know the use of the chelop (1. e., fire piston).” The latter 
remark leaves out of consideration the occurrence of the implement 
in British North Borneo; but there, too, Malayan culture is not lack- 
ing on the coast, and it is likely that the forms found there, which 
differ from the Sea Dayak forms of Sarawak, are traceable to the 
same Malayan origin, the difference in type being due either to varia- 
tion within the district or to different types of the instrument having 
been introduced by the Malays. The use of lead as a material is 
peculiar to Borneo, and it is possible that this may be a character 
developed in the island itself, unless the Malays may have themselves 
used this metal and introduced its use with the instrument itself. Of 
this there appears so far to be no record. There is no Siamese influ- 
ence in Borneo, so that the direct influence of Siamese culture from 
the Malay Peninsula is quite improbable. 
Java.—F ire pistons, though now scarce in Java, range over a wide 
area of the island. They are apparently always made throughout of 
buffalo horn; at least, all the specimines I have seen or know of are 
of this material. 
A good, well-made specimen in my possession (fig. 39), of black 
horn, carefully polished, has a cigar-shaped cylinder, with two bands 
of ornamental engraving. The piston terminates in a large rounded 
head, which is fixed to it with a horn rivet. This knob or piston 
head is hollowed out, and serves as a receptacle for tinder, which 
consists of a brown palm scurf. The specimen was obtained in 
Buitenzorg in the west of Java. This shape appears to be a charac- 
teristic one. Mr. C. M. Pleyte, of Leiden, had several examples of 
this form from Bogor, one of which is now in the Edinburgh Mu- 
seum; these are almost identical with my specimens. In the museum 
at Rotterdam there is a horn fire piston from Java, but I do not 
know if its shape is the same as the above. In the Cambridge Mu- 
seum may be seen a specimen from Kadiri (Kediri), in which the 
cylinder is shorter and terminates in a small projecting knob. It 
is ringed all over with transverse, incised lines (fig. 40). <A dif- 
ferent type again is figured by C. M. Pleyte,* in which the horn 
cylinder tapers from below upward, the base being broad and cut 
off square. The knob on the piston is hollowed for containing 
tinder, and is furnished with a lid which fits over a flange (fig. 41). 
In the same article Pleyte refers” to a Sundanese fire piston (West 
Java) called ¢jélétok. The form of this is, unfortunately, not de- 
scribed. He says that ¢jélétok is from the root word tjetok=Malay. 
@ Globus, LIX, pt. 1v, p. 3 (of reprint). 
5 Quoting the catalogue of the Bataviaasche Genootschap van Kunsten en 
Wetenschappen, p. 56, No. 1120. 
