28 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



flattened, over this is fitted a ring of bamboo. There are two 

 stops bored in a flattened strip on the same side as the 

 sound-hole. They are 5*5 centim. apart, the upper one is 44*5 

 centim. from the sound-hole. The flute is decorated with an 

 incised phyllomorphic design roughly executed. Total length 

 64-5 cm. ; diam 1*7 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1292. F. J. D. Cox, Esq. [P. viii. 03.] 



From the Trusan river. 



o. Sea-Dyak — Sulieng nijawa. 



(Plate III fig. 8, second specimen from the left). 



Distal end open and cut square, proximal end closed by the 

 natural septum, the bamboo projecting slightly beyond it. 

 The sound-hole is bored just distad of the septum and the 

 bamboo wall between it and the proximal end is shaved down 

 in the usual manner ; the bamboo ring that fits over this 

 portion has been lost. There are three note-holes about 3 centim. 

 apart from each other, the uppermost being 25 centim. from the 

 sound-hole. Total length 41*3 cm.; diam. 2 cm. 



Catalogue No. 64. Brooke Low collection. 



It is quite possible to play on this flageolet and the three 

 preceding ones even if the bamboo ring is removed, the upper 

 or lower lip in that case helping to form the directive duct; it 

 is therefore just possible that the Sea-Dyak flageolet never 

 was furnished with a bamboo ring but I think that this is 

 unlikely and at any rate the Sea-Dyak specimen falls naturally 

 into position with the Murut and Land-Dyak ones. 



a 



6. Land-Dyak— Kroto (Plate. VIII fig. 6.) 



Distal end open and slightly obliquely truncate, proximal 

 end closed by the natural septum, the bamboo projects slightly 

 beyond this; slightly distad of the septum the bamboo is obliquely 

 sliced and in the exposed surface the sound-hole is bored with 

 a hot iron ; between the sound-hole and the proximal end the 

 bamboo wall is shaved down and has one side flattened in the 



Jour. Straits Branch 



