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and is prevented from slipping through by a knot ; the other end 

 is attached to the tuning peg; this transfixes the head just 

 above the angle, and in order to expose a length of peg round 

 which to wind the string a deep short longitudinal groove is 

 cut in the anterior face of the head, into this the string runs, is 

 wound round the peg, passes out through the peg hole and is 

 knotted to the peg outside the groove (Plate VII. fig. 4). A 

 wooden inverted V-shaped bridge is set on the diaphragm and 

 a small slip of wood is thrust under the string just before it 

 enters the tuning-peg groove. There is a bracing string of 

 grass. The bow is of bamboo with a grass string. Total length 

 83.5 cm: diam. of resonator 12.5 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1229. D. J. S. Bailey, Esq. [P. ii. 03]. 

 Except that there is only one string this instrument might be 

 called an engkerbap, the shape and carving of the head of the 

 stem being very characteristic of that instrument. From the 

 Undup River. 



2. Land-Dyak — Sigittuad or Sir/Hot. (Plate VII, fig. 7.) 



Stem a length of bamboo (tongon). Resonator a hollowed- 

 out coconut shell with the top third cut off, it is transfixed by a 

 piece of wood (benoah) which then passes a short way up the 

 cavity of the bamboo stem ; in the bottom of the coconut shell 

 is pierced a quincunx of holes ; the top is covered by a circular 

 sheet of sago-palm leaf, which is not secured in any way. There 

 is one tuning peg (than) which transfixes the stem back to front 

 not from side to side as in the enserunai. The single string (ooi) 

 which is the adventitious root of some epiphytic plant is knotted 

 at one end of the piece of wood transfixing the resonator, at the 

 other it is wound round the tuning peg. A triangular block of 

 wood {tikyer) stands on the diaphragm and serves to bridge up 

 the string. There is a small bow of bamboo with a string made 

 from a strand of the stem of the common bracken, Pleris 

 aquilina. Total length 62 cm. From the village of Krokong, 

 Upper Sarawak. 



Catalogue No. 1277. E. W. Byrde, Esq. [P. vij. 03] 

 The instrument is of very simple construction, in fact it 

 was made in about half-an-hour, the taut string serves to keep 

 every thing together, if this is slackened the diaphragm slips off 



R. A, Soc.,No. 40,1904. 



