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jews-harps which are caused to sound by jerks on a piece of string 

 attached to one end of the frame of the instrument, the other 

 end of the frame is held between the finger and thumb of the 

 other hand. TheDusuns employ a wooden jews-harp but play 

 it by repeatedly striking one end of the frame with the fore 

 finger of the right hand and the Land-Dyaks play on a brass 

 jews-harp in the same way. The Dusun and Land-Dyak jews- 

 harps are produced at one end to form a handle but the Sea- 

 Dyak forms have usually no handle the instrument consisting 

 merely of a tongue and a frame the ends of which are roughly 

 symmetrical. 



1 Sea-Dyak — Ruding. 



a. (Plate V fig. 13, second specimen from the bottom). 



Made of apengwood (Arenga sp.) with the cuticle still left 

 on the face of the instrument; the back of the instrument is long- 

 itudinally concave and the wood has been scraped down so that 

 it is quite thin except at the ends which are thick and almost 

 flat. The tongue is 8 centim. long its proximal half is 0*5 centim. 

 broad, its distal half only 0*2 centim. ; there is a marked 

 ' shoulder ' half way down the tongue. The frame follows the 

 outline of the tongue. The ends of the instrument are bluntly 

 pointed. To one end of the instrument a short piece of string 

 with a slender wooden toggle is attached ; through a hole in 

 the other end passes a short loop of string, which is stretched 

 taut by the third and fourth fingers of the left hand when 

 the instrument is held ready for playing between the finger and 

 thumb of the same hand. The instrument is contained in a 

 small case of bamboo decorated with a phyllomorhic design in 

 low relief with the background stained red by dragon's blood. 



Total length 10*8 cm. ; breath 1*5 cm. 



Catalogue No. 204. Brooke Low collection. 



b. (Plate V fig. 13, third specimen from the bottom). 

 Very similar to the preceeding, but the ends more pointed. 



It is contained in a bamboo case decorated in the same way as 

 the case of No. 204. Length 14*7 cm. ; breath 1-5 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1112. [Pd. xii. 00]. 



II. A. Soc, No. 40.1904. 



