IN SUMATRA. 



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

 carving represented on page 186, and called tata huhur-talam ; 

 the. second ligure represents the carving on the Pahatan, or 

 the lower beam of the framework of the house ; where the 

 tata sinibar commences the designs, followed by the tata 

 aican, which either continues the 

 whole length of the beam alter- 

 nately reversed till it is closed 

 again by a second tata simhar, or 

 both are used throughout alter- 

 nately erect and reversed. The 

 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 the Ogau pattern 

 par 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 



TAIL EAMO-BAMO. 



BEMTHDO OAKVrNG — TATA OTAE GAMOOLUNG — OS A HOUSE 

 IN PESGAKDONAN. 



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 riiy 

 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 Chief's fathers 

 In the village was collected a large crowd from surround- 

 ing margas and even from as far as Palembang, the scene 



