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the other is open. The instruments are beaten with a short 

 stick to accompany the ton-ton. Length 49 cm. and 43 cm. 

 diam 5 cm. and 5.2 cm. 



Catalogue Nos. 1298 a and b. [Pd. ix. 03]. From the 

 Upper Sadong district. 



3. Land-Dyak — Krotong — Wooden harmonicum. 



A set of six slabs of hard red wood {inellobi) ranging in 

 length from 49 centim. to 40 centim., in breadth from 7 centim. 

 to 5 centim., in thickness from 3 5 centim. to 1*5 centim. The 

 notes emitted when the slabs are struck do not form a regular 

 scale. Three slabs (anakj are marked at one end with a streak 

 of white paint and these give higher notes than the three others 

 (endor) which are marked with a cross. The slabs are laid on a 

 block of soft wood or on the legs of the performer and are 

 tapped with two sticks (bokan); sometimes two men play, one 

 striking the anak the other the endor. 



Catalogue No. 1280. E. W. Byrde, Esq. [P. 9. vii. 02]. 



This example was made at Krokong, LTpper Sarawak, and 

 was in use for many years at feasts and funerals. Brooke Low 

 mentions similar specimens, but made also of stone in use amongst 

 the Sea-Dyaks. Burbidge gives an account of a Kadyan 

 " triaugle or its music rather, being represented by two or three 

 steel hatched leads which were laid across laths on the floor and 

 beaten in time with a bit of iron " (cf . Ling-Roth I.e. Vol. II p. 263). 



4. Maloh — Tenglaiang — (PlateIVfig.ll, left-hand specimen). 



A long narrow rectangular block of tapang wood with a 

 scroll handle projecting from the left-hand end (upper end in 

 the figure). It is narrower at the top (right-hand side in the 

 figure) than at the bottom, the sides sloping in from a line just 

 below the middle line. A deep longitudinal cavity is scooped out 

 of the block of wood ; it slopes up at either end. On one side 

 (that seen in the figure) there is at either end a perpendicular 

 border of of phyllomorphic design carved in deep relief whilst a 

 broad horizontal border of incised phyllomorphic design runs 

 along the lower half of the instrument ; on the other side the 



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



