22 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



the nose flute or than any of the flageolets and this probably 

 accounts for its sparse distribution. 



1. Sea-Dyak — Sulieng san (Plate VIII fig 1.) 



Made of bamboo, one end (the distal)* open and slightly 

 obliquely truncate ; the natural septum closes the other end ; 

 the bamboo has not been cut flush with this but projects con- 

 siderably beyond it. The sound-hole is a long quadrangular 

 slit cut close to the node of the bamboo. There are four open 

 stops all on the same side and about 3 centim. apart. Total 

 length, 83.3 cm. ; diameter, 2.5 cm. 



Catalogue No. 62. Brooke Low collection. 



None of the Bornean tribes adopt any standard of measure- 

 ment when boring stopes in their flutes, but bore them at 

 the distances apart the most convenient to the maker. 



Class III. — Nose-Flutes. 



(Plate III fig. 8 and Plate VIII fig. 2.) 



These are employed by Dusuns, Kanowits, Tanjongs, Ka- 

 yans, Kenyahs and allied tribes, Sea-Dyaks and Land Dyaks. 



A photograph of a Tanjong playing on a nose flute is given 

 in Beccari's u Nelle foreste di Borneo" (1902) p. 424 ; the per- 

 former is seated cross-legged on the ground and holds the long 

 bamboo flute across his body from right to left and almost at 

 arm's length, the left nostril is applied to the proximal end of the 

 instrument and directs a jet of air against the edge of the hole 

 pierced in the natural septum of the bamboo. 



Air is driven through only one nostril, the other is plugged 

 with cloth or tobacco or moss (cf . Ling-Roth 1. c. vol. II, p. 258). 

 These instruments are generally long and are made from a single 

 joint of bamboo, the distal end is open and the proximal end is 

 closed by the natural septum which is perforated by an irregu- 

 larly shaped hole ; the leaf -scars and the wall of the bamboo 

 immediately adjacent to the septum are shaved and smoothed 

 down. Fig 2 Plate VIII is a representation of the proximal end 

 of a nose-flute. The number of stores varies. 



*I term the end irear or at which the sound hole is situated the 

 proximal end ; the opposite end, the distal end. 



Jour. Straits Bvanclj 



