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ii. Peluan Murut of the Upper Padas river, British North Borneo. 



d. 28*4 cm. long, 6'6 cm. broad at the top. A square 

 projection at the top; the upper third is covered both back and 

 front with tin-foil, a raised line runs down the centre of the 

 front. On the back of the ornament at the top is stuck a lump 

 of dammar, which serves to hold in position a tuft of goat's hair 

 and a few bright blue feathers from the back of the male fairy 

 bluebird Irena criniger ; in the resinous lump are imbedded a seed 

 of Adenanthera pavonina and a piece of shell. 



Acquired by exchange 9. iv. 04. 

 Catalogue No. 1409. (Plate I. fig. 1, c). 



e. 18-6 cm. long, 1*7 cm. broad. An asymmetrical flat 

 pointed strip of deer's horn, not decorated in any way. 



Acquired by exchange 9. iv. 04. 

 Catalogue No. 1410. (Plate I. fig. 1, b). 

 A somewhat similar specimen is figured by Ling Roth (I.e. 

 vol. II. p. 59). 



iii. Tagal.* 



/. 22-6 cm. long, 5*8 cm. broad at the top. Nearly the 

 whole of the front of the pin is covered with tin-foil, the apex 

 and a short length in the middle alone being uncovered ; the 

 tin-foil is in two pieces, a phyllomorphic design has been fretted 

 in the lower. On the back of the ornament at the top is stuck 

 a lump of dammar which serves to hold a small tuft of goat's 

 hair, and in the resinous lump are embedded two seeds of Adenan- 

 thera pavonina and a portion of a pale blue bead ; just below this 

 a disc of looking-glass is fastened with dammar to the pin. 



From the Upper Padas, British N. Borneo. 



Sir P. F. Cunynghame, Bart. [P. 22. viij. 92]. 



Catalogue No. 747. (Plate I. fig. 1, d). ' 



g. 21 cm. long, 6*1 cm. broad at thetjp. The upper third, 

 both back and front is covered with tin-foil, in front at the top 

 two circular depressions have been ground in the horn and into 



*These Tagal are a sub- tribe of the Murut and of course have no 

 affinity with the Philippine Tagal o or Tagal ; they dwell in the 

 highlands forming the watershed of the Upper Padas and Upper Trusan 

 rivers. 



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