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Catalogue No. From Krokong village. Upper Sarawak. 

 [E. W. Byrde, Esq. P. vii. 03~|. 



The Land-Dyaks of Quop call this instrument traing ; the 

 Land-Dyaks of the Upper Sadong call it jingun. 



These instruments are made very carefully and the owner 

 of a good specimen will not readily part with it. If the tongue, 

 when just cut out from the frame, does not vibrate properly it 

 is carefully filed with the cuticle of a species of bamboo and 

 until it vibrates freely the instrument is said to have no " life " 

 or " soul. " At Krokong several men will play jews-harps in 

 concert tuning them by smearing lime on to the vibrating 

 tongues. 



4. Sea-Uyak — Engsulu or Hading sulu. 



a. ( Plate VI fig. 13 middle specimen). 



Jews-harp of brass ; markedly concavo-convex longitud- 

 inally, suggesting that it is derived from a wooden model. 

 The tongue tapers to its end. One end of the frame is cut 

 out into three points, the other end is bifurcate I, and the two 

 limbs of the bifurcation are rolled up into spirals ; a loop of string 

 passes throigh a hole at this end, a short string with a brass 

 toggle attached to it passes through a hole at the other end. 



Length 9 cm. ; breadth 08 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1251. From Lobok Antu, Batang Lupar. 



[R. Shelf ord, Esq. P. 5. iv. 03] 



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



Differs from the preceeding specimen in being nearly fiat ; 

 one end is produced to form a sort of handle but it is quite thin 

 and flat and is fretted and cut into a pseudo-phyllomorphic pat- 

 tern. The opposite end of the instrument is " stepped " and a 

 string with a bamboo toggle is passed through a hole here. 

 The tongue does not taper, its proximal half is twice as thick 

 as the distal (cf. ruding). 



Length 10*1 cm.; greatest breadth, 0*8 cm. 



Catalogue No. 610. Brooke Low collection, 



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



