58 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



Addenda II. 



A very simple form of wind-instrument was quite recently 

 presented to the Sarawak Museum and is briefly described 

 below : — 



Land-Dyak — bashi. 



This is a length of a large species of bamboo with a large 

 circular hole cut in each internode (seven in number), the holes 

 facing different directions. The instrument is fastened at the 

 top of a hijrh tree and the wind blowing across one, or perhaps 

 more, of the holes makes a loud howling noise. 



From the village of Quop. 



Total length 311*5 cm. ; diameter 5*7 cm. 



Rev. F. W. Nichols [P] 



Catalogue No. 1384. 



Sometimes rather a different instrument is in use ; one 

 internode only of bamboo is employed and a large hole is cut 

 in it, the internode spins (vertically) on a pivot and is fitted 

 with a vane so that the sound-hole is always turned at the 

 right angle to the wind from whatever direction it may blow. 



The bull-roarer can hardly be omitted from a catalogue of 

 musical instruments, even though the specimen described below 

 was used, like the bull-roarers of the Malay Peninsula, merely 

 as a scarecrow. A popular account of the bull-roarer is given 

 by Dr. A. C. Haddon in his book " The Study of Man " 

 pp. 277-327 and some remarks on the relationship between the 

 bull-roarer and other wind-instruments are given by Mr. H. 

 Balfour in a recent number of the Journal of the Anthropologi- 

 cal Institute (Vol. XXXII. pp. 173, 174.) 



Narom — bull-roarer. 



A flat piece of wood shaped something like a spear-head, 

 27*2 cm. X 6-1 cm. ; both ends are sharply pointed, but at one 

 end are two projecting " ears," a string passes through a hole 



Jour. Straits Branch 



