10 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



IV. Head-Dress Ornaments. 



1. Malay— "tajok." 



a. A pair of ornaments worn on each side of the head- 

 dress by bridegrooms at the marriage ceremony. Each orna- 

 ment is a branched wire stalk covered with gold thread, to the 

 branches are attached by five wire springs several artificial 

 flowers cut out of gold paper, and a long chain of gold paper 

 pendants hangs from one of the branches. 



[Pd. xii. 02]. 



Catalogue No. 1215. (Plate I. fig. 3, a). 



Similar ornaments though differently named are worn 

 by bridegrooms in the Malay Peninsula. " His head is adorned 

 with the sigar, a peculiar head-dress of red cloth arranged tur- 

 banwise, with a peak on the right-hand side, from which artificial 

 flowers (gunjei) depend Besides this head-dress the bride- 

 groom has a small bunch of artificial flowers {sunting-sunting) 

 stuck behind each ear, whilst two similar bunches are stuck in 

 the head-dress (one on the right and the other on the left)." 

 (Malay Magic, by W. W. Skeat p. 379. Plate 12. Fig. 1). 



2. Land Dyak— " sanggur mabok." 



a. A tuft of aromatic leaves, " daun mabok " (.Acorus sp.) 

 bound on to a short wooden stick with a strip of red cloth. 

 Sometimes worn in the head-dress by young men. 



From Piching, Upper Sadong (Menggrat sub-tribe) [Pd. 

 viij. 03]. 



Catalogue No. 1302. 



Sea-Dyak women are fond of wearing flowers in their hair 

 or head-dresses ; men's caps are frequently decorated with the 

 tail-feathers of hornbills or the quills of the argus pheasant. 

 Ling-Roth figures (1. c. vol. II. p. 60) a remarkable conoidal cap, 

 in the collection of the British Museum, carrying in the ceutre of 

 the crown a plume 21 ins. high of small downy white feathers 

 attached to slips of bamboo ; a very similar cap, though unpro- 

 vided with a plume, worn by the Land-Dyaks of Sambas, Dutch 

 Borneo, has recently been presented to the Sarawak Museum by 

 Mr. E. W. Byrde. 



Jour, Straits Branch 



