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made fast to a pearl shirt-button from which depend four 

 short strings of similar beads forming- a tassel. The hair is 

 tied in a knot on the top of the head, the pin is stuck through 

 it and the bead string- is wound round the base of the knot. 



Length (in a straight line) 10*9 cm. ; breadth at top 0'9 

 cm. From Kiou, British N. Borneo. 



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



Catalogue No. 760. (Plate I. fig. 2, e). 



Ling Roth (I.e. vol. II. p. 58) figures a silver hairpin from 

 the Baram River (ex. coll. Peek) ; it is a slender rod with a 

 star-shaped head and I believe it to be of Malay origin and 

 worn by women. 



II. Combs and Tiaras. 



1. Dusun — wooden combs. 



These are worn by women in the knot of hair at the back of 

 the head ; * they are usually ilat-sided with a long shaped handle 

 (cf. Ling Roth I.e. vol. II. p. 59 and Whitehead, Exploration 

 of Kina Balu, Plate opposite p. 108 fig. X). Whitehead (I.e. 

 fig. IX) figures also a double comb, the teeth springing from each 

 side of a horizontal wooden strip. 



a. Wooden comb, with nine teeth and an elongated shaped 

 handle ; the two flat sides are decorated with geometrical de- 

 signs painted on with black resin. 



Total length 12 cm. greatest breadth 3'5 cm 



From N. of Kina Balu. Mr. Steffen [P. vi. 92]. 



Catalogue No. 783. (Plate VIII. fig. 1). 



2. Malay — " sisir penyu." 



a. A broad curved comb of tortoise shell with numerous 

 teeth ; the " back " is cut into a scallopped edge. The comb is 

 worn by women at the back of the head just above the knot of hair. 

 Length (measured along the curve) 1-4-6 cm. ; breadth 4*2 cm. 



TPd. xii. 02]. 



Catalogue No. 1213. (Plate I. fig. 2,/). 



* No magical significance whatever appears to be attached to these 

 combs or to the patterns on them, as is the case with the very similar 

 combs worn by Semang women of the Malay Peninsula. 



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