34 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



The next instrument of this class is of a different type, it 

 is a clay whistle not unlike the " Ocarina " of European manu 

 facture. 



2. Sea-Dyak— Penyipu, (Plate VII fig. 8). 



A hollow ovoid of white clay, sharply pointed at one end, 

 truncate at the other. There is a large sound-hole putting the 

 cavity of the instrument in communication with the exterior. A 

 narrow duct runs from the closed truncate end through the 

 wall of the whistle to the lip of the sound-hole ; it has evidently 

 been bored with a fine piece of wire or grass stem whilst the 

 clay was still soft. There are two key-holes of narrow 

 diameter on the opposite side to the sound-hole. Length 13-3 

 cm.; greatest diam. 5 cm. 



Catalogue No. 990. D. J. S. Bailey, Esq. [P]. From 

 Kabong, Saribas River. 



Class VI. 



Pipes— With single " beating" reed (Clarionet type).* . 



(Plate VIII fig. 13.) 



I long believed that this extremely primitive form of 

 reed instrument was non-existent in Borneo ; it is true that St. 

 John (quoted by Ling-Roth I.e. Vol. II. p. 259) describes a 

 musical instrument in use amongst the Muruts,f which appears 



* For an interesting account of wind-instruments of this class see 

 H. Balfour " The Old British Pibcorn or Hornpipe and its affinities" 

 (Journ. Anthrop. Inst. Nov. 1890). Mr. Balfour figures and describes 

 reed-pipes from England, Grecian Archipelago, Egypt and India ; 

 nearly all are double pipes like the Bornean simpler instrument, but 

 they all are probably derived from a single pipe cut from a cornstalk, 

 reed or bamboo. Mr. Balfour's quotations from Vergil, Chaucer, 

 Spenser and Shakespeare are very much to the point. 



f' c Two thin bamboos, about twelve inches long, were fastened 

 very neatly side by side ; in one was cut four holes like those in a flute, 

 while the other had a piece of grass inserted in the lower end. A 

 slight incision was then cut across both towards the upper portion. 

 The performer thrust this instrument rather deep into his mouth and 

 blew, and then, with the aid of tongue, fingers and moving the grass, 

 produced some very agreeable and wild tunes." 



Jour. Straits Brjtaefe 



