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usual way. Instead of a bamboo ring fitted over this portion a 

 strip of split rattan is wound round it, knotted once, then car- 

 ried down the back of the instrument and tied round it six times 

 in the manner shown in the drawing. There are five stops 

 on the opposite side to the sound-hole bored with a red-hot 

 iron in a strip flattened by stripping off the cuticle of the bamboo. 

 They are 2*5 centim. apart. Total length 39 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1282. E. W. Byrde, Esq. (Pd. vii. 03). 



From Sambas, Dutch Borneo. 



D. 



. a. Murut— Flageolet. (Plate VIII figs. 7 and 8.) 



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

 natural septum, the bamboo has not been cut flush with this but 

 projects considerably beyond it; in the wall of this projecting 

 part a small hole is bored quite close to the septum, and a groove 

 runs on the outside of the flute from this hole to the sound-hole, 

 the groove being covered by a slip of bamboo luted on with 

 dammar. The edge of the sound-hole is sharpened by a piece 

 of palm-leaf stuck on to it. The sound-hole is 5 centim. from 

 the proximal end; there are two stops 8*5 .centim. apart 

 bored with a red-hot iron in a flattened strip on the same side 

 as the sound-hole, the upper one is 32 centim. from the sound- 

 hole. Total length 52*5 cm. ; diam. 2*5 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1291. F. J. D. Cox, Esq. (P. viii. 03). From 

 the Trusan river. 



b. (Plate 1 1 1, fig. 8, second specimm fro n right). 



Very similar to the preceding ; there are two lashings of 

 split rattan round the distal end of the instrument to keep it 

 from splitting ; the slip of bamboo roofing over the directive 

 groove has been lost. Some rude representatives of animals 

 (? buffaloes) have been scratched with the point of a knife on the 

 wall of the instrument but there is no attempt at a decorative 

 pattern. The two stops are 7*5 cpntim. apart; the upper 

 is 45 centim. from the sound- hole, which is 7 # 5 centim. from the 

 proximal end. Length 72 cm. ; diam. 3 cm. 



R. A.)Soc, No. 40, 1904, 



