8 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



rattan string at one end is looped round the part of the stem 

 that projects beyond the resonator, the other passes into a 

 groove and round a tuning peg that traverses the stem just 

 below the head. Bridge missing; a long and stout bamboo bow 

 with rattan string. Total length 78 cm; diameter of resonator 

 11.5 cm. 



Catalogue Xo. 974. Brooke Low collection. 



d. (2nd specimen from right). Stem straight, flattened, of 

 hard brown wood ; it transfixes the resonator but does not 

 project much beyond ; the head is enlarged, its front edge is 

 notched and carved. The resonator is made from a section of 

 bamboo, cut just above and just below a node ; the septum of 

 the bamboo is perforated with a star-shaped hole ; the top of 

 the resonator is covered with a diaphragm of skin lashed on 

 with rattan (Plate VII, fig. 1); the plaited band of rattan (c.) encir- 

 cles the resonator at the zone of the leaf-scars. The single 

 rattan string is at one end looped over the stem in the usual 

 manner, at the other end is lashed round the lower end of the 

 head, passing through a hole in the front border ; there is no 

 tuning peg. There is a wooden bridge shaped like an in- 

 verted V. resting on the diaphragm of the resonator and a grass 

 bracing string. The bow is of rattan with a string made from 

 a strand of the stem uf the bracken, Pteris aquilina. Total 

 length 59.7 cm.; diameter of resonator 6.2 cm.; height of reso- 

 nator 7 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1228. D. J. S. Bailey, Esq. [P] ; from the 

 head waters of the Undup River. 



e. (1st specimen on left). Stem of soft wood, almost square 

 in transverse section ; it transfixes and projects beyond the 

 resonator ; the head is much enlarged, flattened laterally and 

 bent back at an angle to the rest of the stem ; on each side 

 a phyllomorphic pattern (resam—Gleichenia dichotoma) is carv- 

 ed in deep relief. The resonator is half a cocoanut shell, one 

 of the " eyes " at the bottom has been perforated ; the mouth is 

 covered with a diaphragm of monkey skin with the hair still on 

 fastened with rattan lashings in the usual manner v Plate VII, 

 fig. 1) The single rattan string at one end passes through a hole 

 pierced in the part of the stem that projects beyond the resonator 



Jour. Straits Branch 



