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at their lower ends they pass through holes in the face of the 

 resonator and are knotted to prevent slipping through. Bridge 

 lost. 



Total length. 12-5 cm.; length of stem, 46'8 cm. ; greatest 

 breadth of resonator, 28 - 8 cm.; breadth of resonator at the 

 bottom 19 cm. ; greatest depth of resonator 14*3 cm. 



Catalogue No. 52. Brooke Low collection. 



A. diminutive model of a very similar instrument is hung on 

 the wall of a model of a Kajaman house (Belaga, Rejang R.) 

 recently presented to the Sarawak Musuem. Ling Roth, (1. c. 

 Vol. II, p. 261) figures a similar instrument in the British 

 Museum, This however was made by the Long Wai, who dwell 

 on the Mahakkam River, they are grouped by Dr. 0. Hose 

 amongst the Kayacs ; the Long Wai name for this instrument 

 is impai. 



2. Dusun. — Two stringed guitar (? native name) (PI. VII, fig. 6). 



This is carved from a block of soft white wood. The stem 

 is long, square in section about its middle, expanding at its 

 junction with the resonator and at the head which is carved 

 and moulded ; on its front face five little blocks of wood ara 

 pegged on (3-3^ cm. apart), apparently to mark the fingering 

 of the strings. The resonator which is somewhat boat-shaped 

 is hollowed out from the back and the cavity is closed by a 

 sheet of sago-palm leaf laced on with rattan stitchings to the 

 wood. Both the front and the back of the resonator are 

 perforated in their centres by two triangular holes, the apices 

 of the triangles being conjoined. Part of the resonator is not 

 hollowed but is produced distally as a solid piece, curved 

 slightly upwards. A shaped ridge of wood terminating proxim- 

 ally in a square block is left on the face of the resonator ; the two 

 brass-wire strings are looped through holes in the ridge, pass 

 through the square block up to the lower end of the head 

 which they pierce and then are wound round two tuning- 

 pegs. 



Total length 119-5 cm. ; length of stem, 67 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1274. Collected by the late Dr. A. Dennys 

 Acquired by exchange from the Raffles Museum, Singapore. 



R. A. Soc, No. 40, 1904 



