44 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



Ling Roth (1. c. Vol. II p. 257) figures a handled brass 

 jews-harp but with a string attached to the frame ; it is evident- 

 ly a Sea-Dyak engsula but it has been wrongly named rodiung. 



This is one of the musical instruments which Dyaks say are 

 possessed of " Jako " i. e. articulate speech ; the ensernnai is 

 another but the ruding is not. The engsulu is played by young 

 men and girls who are lovers ; a young man desirous of mar- 

 rying a girl will, previous to matrimony, visit at night his inamo- 

 rata in her mosquito curtains and will play to her on his jews- 

 harp, she will reply on her jews-harp and it is said that the 

 notes of the instruments can be translated by experts into artic- 

 ulate language in the form of a poem. 



PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS. 



I. Wooden resonators and harmonicums. 



II. Metal gongs. 



III. Bells. 



IV. Drums. 



Class I.— Wooden Resonators and Harmonicums. 



These have been superseded almost every where by metal 

 gongs made for the most part in Java and China. 



1. Land-Dyak— Lalipok. (Plate VI fig. 14). 



These are merely portions of a bamboo joint with the wall 

 scraped quite thin, one end is closed by the septum the other is 

 open. The open end is knocked against some hard substance 

 such as an ironwood post. They are played in accompaniment 

 with the ton-ton (cf. antea p. 17). Length 24*2 cm. and 37 cm. 

 diam. 5 cm. and 5 cm. 



Catalogue Nos. 1297 a and b. [Pd- ix. 03.] From the 

 Upper Sadong District. 



2. Land-Dyak — Pelonchong. (Plate VI fig. 14). 



Two pieces of bamboo joints, the walls not scraped thin 

 but with a hole cut in one side ; one end is closed by the septum 



Jour. Straits Branch 



