6 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



Length (in a straight line) 19*6 cm. ; greatest breadth 1-5 

 cm. Hon. C. C. de Crespigny [P. 4. vii. 78]. 

 Catalogue No. 662 a. (Plate I. fig. 2, a). 



b. Very similar to the preceding but larger ; one end is 

 pointed, the other is curled up into a fiat spiral ; there are 

 fewer holes pierced in the concave border, some of them are 

 supplied with brass rings ; there is one hole lower down on the 

 convex border. 



Length (in a straight line) 23*3 cm. ; greatest breadth 1-7 

 cm. Hon. C. C. de Crespigny [P. 4, vii. 78]. 



Catalogue No. 662 b. (Plate I. fig. 2, b). 



These pins are said to be worn by either sex. Their 

 origin seems to be extremely doubtful and this type of hairpin 

 is certainly not known now amongst the Muruts of the Trusan 

 River though, it is quite possible that a former generation 

 used them. 



4. Kalabit— " pirn." 



a. A slender pointed steel rod worn by men in the same 

 way as the Murut " pleng. " The blunt end for a distance of 

 6 centim. is twisted into a close spiral. 



Total length 26-2 cm. [Pd. 30. iii. 03]. 



Catalogue No. 1253. (Plate I. fig. 2, a). 



5. Dusun — "timbok." 



Small metal hairpins worn by women. 



a. A flat strip of steel, bent into a slight curve ; one end 

 (the upper) is broader than the lower, the sides taper gradually. 

 A small hole is bored in the upper end. 



Length (in a straight line) 12-5 cm. ; breadth (at top) 1*2 

 cm. From Kiou, British N. Borneo. 



Drs. G. D. and H. A. Haviland coll. [P. v. 92]. 

 Catalogue No. 759. (Plate T. fig. 2, d), 



b. Very similar, but smaller and made of brass, the lower 

 end less pointed. To the hole in the broad end is attached a 

 long (69 centim.) string of common glass beads of European 

 manufacture, the majority are red, a few blue, green, black 

 and white ones being intermixed ; the string at its loose end is 



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