SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



( A ) Fiddles with straight wooden stem transfixing a resonator 

 usually made from a hollowed-out coconut shell or gourd, and 

 with one or more strings. Such are the one stringed enserunai 

 of the Sea-Dyaks and the sigittuad of the Land-Dyaks and the 

 two- or three-stringed engkerbap of the Sea-Dyaks. The per- 

 former on any of these instruments sits on the ground and hold- 

 ing the stem of the fiddle in his left hand rests the resonator 

 against the calf of his left leg or else grasps with his toes the 

 part of the stem that projects through the resonator ; the string 

 is sawed with a very simple bow (pengayat) he\d in the right hand ; 

 generally no sound can be produced until the string has been 

 well moistened with saliva and even then the volume of sound is 

 not great. The Sea-Dyaks imitate on the enserunai the dirges 

 sung at deaths and at burial. 



(B) Guitars, cut out from a solid block of wood, the resonat- 

 or being hollowed out either from the back or from the front, 

 and with from two to six strings, which are strummed with the 

 ringers. Examples of such instruments are found amongst the 

 Kayans, Kenyans, Malohs, Dusuns, Malays, and Sea-Dyaks, the 

 latter people having probably borrowed from the Malohs. The 

 riddle figured by Ling Roth I.e. Vol. II, p. 262 is undoubtedly 

 Chinese ; numbers of these are made in Hong-Kong for export 

 andean be bought any day in the Sarawak bazaars. The Malay 

 fiddle figured on p. 266. Vol. II. of Ling Roth's work is Javanese 

 and though the instrument is described as being of Borneo make, 

 it cannot be regarded as typical of Borneo Malays. A very 

 similar specimen bought from a Bugis is in the Raffles Museum, 

 Singapore. 



A. FIDDLES. 

 1. Sea-Dyak — Enserunai (Plate I, ficr. 2.) 



a. — (Second specimen from the left.) 



Stem straight, transfixing the resonator and projecting con- 

 siderably beyond ; the head is flattened and slightly enlarged ; 

 its front border notched and moulded. The resonator is half a 

 gourd (genok selaing), the bottom is perforated ; a diaphragm 

 of monkey skin is lashed on with a rattan binding and tightened 

 up with wedges (Plate VII, fig. 1). The string which is of rattan 



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