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the resonator and the resonator itself becomes detached from 

 the bamboo stem. The Krokongs occasionally make more 

 finished fiddles than the one described above, but there are no 

 specimens of such in the Sarawak Museum nor have I ever seen 

 one ; in some instances the head of a sigittuad stem may be 

 carved to resemble a hornbill's head. 



3. Sea-Dyak — Engkerbap. 



Stem straight of a soft wood, transfixing resonator and 

 projecting slightly beyond ; the resonator is half a coconut shell 

 with a diaphragm of lizard ( Varanus salvator) skin, secured by 

 rattan lashings and wedges in the usual manner. The head of 

 the stem resembles that in the enserunai No. 1229 ; the pattern 

 has been painted red, blue, green and yellow. The two strings 

 of split rattan are at one end tied to that portion of the stem 

 which projects beyond the 'resonator, at the other they pass 

 round two tuning pegs which are fitted as in the enserunai No. 

 1229. (Plate VII, fig. 4) The bow (pengayat) is of rattan with 

 a grass string. Total length 97 cm. From the Batang Lupar. 



Catalogue No. 1342. D. J. S. Bailey, Esq. [P. 29. ix, 03J 



B. GUITARS. 

 1. Kyan— Sapeh (PI. II, fig. 4.) 



Two-stringed guitar strummed with the fingers. A large 

 heavy instrument cut out of a block of tapang wood. The 

 resonator has been hollowed out at the back to a depth of from 

 7 cm. to 10 cm.; the cavity is not closed by a diaphragm. The 

 face of the resonator is somewhat convex ; it is decorated with 

 seven white discs formed of ground Trochus shells and at the 

 base with an incised geometrical design typically Kayan in 

 character arranged on either side of a pointed ridge. The stem 

 is straight, thickening to the head which is carved to represent 

 the head of a dragon (asu) ; a shell disc is let into the top of 

 the dragon's head. There are two tuning pegs, one end of 

 these is roughly shaped, the other is split to receive the strings 

 which pass through holes in the stem (Plate VII, fig. 5) and 

 so into the split ends of the pegs. The strings are of rattan, 



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