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Total length, 1 17-6 cm. ; greatest breadth, 7 cm. ; depth, 

 6 cm. Catalogue No. 732. Dr. G. D. Haviland coll. From 

 t be head waters of the Tengoa River., British N. Borneo. 



2. Sea Dyak. — Engkratong. 



a. — A wooden box roughly rectangular in shape, the lower 

 sides rounded, a projection at each end, all cut out of one block ; 

 the cavity is hollowed out from the top and closed by a tightly 

 fitted lid of wood securely pegged down ; the lid is perforated 

 with a triangular hole in the centre, into the terminal projections 

 are set two large flattened handles, carved and fitted into a 

 phyllomorphic design. A slender wooden upright is stuck into 

 each projection just where it issues from the resonator. Four 

 separate rattan strings pass from one upright to the other, to one 

 they are knotted by slip-knots, to the other by double hitches. 

 Two wooden upright bridges stand on the lid of the resonator, 

 they are notched on one side only to receive the strings. 



Total length 106 cm. ; resonator 41cm. x 16-9 cm. x 10*1 

 cm. 



Catalogue No. 53. Brooke Low collection. 



This specimen has been figured by Ling Roth (I.e. Vol. II, 

 p. 261); on the same page Ling-Roth also figures another speci- 

 men, one handle of which is a fowl's head, the other its tail, 

 and describes this as being in the Brooke Low collection ; I 

 have been unable to find any trace of this particular instrument 

 in the Sarawak Museum. 



(Plate II, fig. 6, lower specimen). 



b. — A rectangular wooden box with a handle at each end, 

 all cut from one block: the box is hollowed from the top and 

 the cavity is closed by a wooden lid nailed on ; the lid is per- 

 forated with a circular hole in the centre ; the handles are 

 scrolled. Into each handle is seta stout wooden upright quadran- 

 gular in section, their tops are expanded and shaped to a leaf 

 form, one In addition has one side carved in relief. Five rattan 

 strings pass through holes in one upright to tuning pegs in the 

 other, over notches in an upright bridge. Resonator, 58 cm. — 

 15-6 cm. — 14 cm. ; height of upright, 29*3 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1258. D. J. S. Bailey Esq., [P. xii . 02.] 



Jour. Straits Branch 



