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bamboo is pushed over the inner tube just above the mouth- 

 piece. This may be either larger or smaller than the outer 

 tube. If the former is the case, the end of the outer tube is 

 somewhat pared away and the short section fitted over it ; if 

 the latter, the end of it is fitted into the outer tube. The only 

 attempts at ornamentation on the blow-pipes externally 

 were annular scratched-in markings below the muzzles and 

 occasionally some slight patterns on the extra bamboo 

 section next the mouth-piece. The dart quivers were all of 

 the usual type of covered quiver obtained from Upper Perak, 

 and the Piah and Plus valleys. The main type of decoration 

 is said by Annandale to be derived from the tail of the Argus 

 pheasant, but, as I found that I was given several names for 

 each kind of pattern, — the Argus pheasant was not one 

 obtained, — I ceased making further enquiries. I also took 

 pattern names among the Jehehr with very similar results. 



Descriptions of several specimens of bows from Upper 

 Perak having been given by Skeat, I do not think that I can 

 add anything very material to what has already been recorded, 

 but I set down here a few noticeable features with regard to 

 them, and their arrows and quivers. The bows which were of 

 some kind of palm wood, ibul or menhar (unidentified) were 

 furnished with shoulders at top and bottom. The permanently 

 attached end of the cord was fastened with a knot at one pair 

 of shoulders. The other end was furnished with a loop, which, 

 when the bow was strung, was fitted over the shoulders at the 

 other extremity, and when loose was allowed to slip down 

 the wood. The outer faces of the bows were rounded, but 

 the inner, though somewhat flattened, always had a ridge 

 running down the middle from end to end. The bow is bent 

 for stringing by placing the end at which the cord is fixed on 

 the ground, grasping, the other end in the hands and pressing 

 with the knee of the right leg, the wood of the bow being 

 gripped near the ground between the big and second toes. 



None of the arrows I saw had detachable foreshafts, as 

 had some described by Mr. Wray. The blades of the arrow- 

 heads were broadly lanceolate, or spatulate, in shape, and 

 furnished with either one or two barbs at their base. A stem 

 of at least 5.5. cms in length, often considerably more, pro- 

 jected from the base of the blade and the end of this was 

 lashed into the bamboo arrow-shaft with a rattan binding, but 

 more than two-thirds of it were left protruding. The notch 

 for the cord across the top of the shaft was in the same plane 

 as the flattened arrow-head, as was also the feathering. This 

 consisted of two long and narrow strips of the tail feathers of 

 a hornbill, fixed to the shaft at their ends with sliglit bindings 

 covered over with damar kelnlut, but free along the rest of their 

 length. The part of the shaft to which the feathers were 

 attached was ornamented with incised annular markings. In 

 some arrows these markings extended beyond the lower point 

 of attachment of the feathers. The quivers were made, as is 

 usual, from an internode of bamboo with a node to form the 



