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as it is supposed that brass weights applied to children's ears 

 will cause the ears to become diseased and to break under the 

 strain. Amongst such tribes as the Tanjong and Tring it is not 

 unusual for the ear, in addition to the large perforation, to be 

 bored in three other places, viz. at the top of the ear-couch and 

 at the proximal end of each limb of the loop formed by the ex- 

 tension of the large perforation in the ear lobe ; a finely beaded 

 string is sometimes wound through one or more of the three 

 smaller perforations. Carl Bock gives (Head-Hunters of Borneo 

 p. 186) the following measurements of the ear of a Tring 

 woman : — " Total length, 7*1 inches ; length of slit. 4*75 inches; 

 distance between level of chin and bottom of ear 2-85 inches." 

 Sea-Dyak men do not have the ear lobe very much elongated, 

 perhaps to no more than one inch ; the fashion of these earrings 

 has been borrowed by this imitative tribe from the Kyans and 

 Kenyan s. 



Carl Bock (I.e. p. 67) gives the following account of the 

 manufacture of these ornaments: — "Taking a long, straight 

 piece of bamboo, the hollow of which was the same diameter as 

 it was intended that the earrings should be, he fixed on the top 

 of it the half of a cocoanut shell with a hole bored through in 

 which the upper end of the cane was inserted, the whole forming 

 a tube with a cup at the top. Wrapping the tube in a cloth, he 

 melted the tin in a small ladle and poured it into the cocoanut 

 cup, till the tube was filled. When the tin was cool he opened 

 the bamboo tube and took out a long straight round rod of tin, 

 which he then bent round a thick but smooth piece of wood, 

 forming a ring with the ends not quite meeting." Other 

 methods which are noted below are employed for rather different 

 types of earrings. 



1. Tanjong. Kanowit, Maloh and Sea-Dyak earrings (" ariek" 

 and " langgu "). 



A. Worn by men. 

 i, Tanjong. 



a. " ariek semera," one pair of tin earrings ; each is a 

 cylindrical length of tin twisted into one turn of a spiral. 

 Diameter of earring, 3 cm.; thickness of tin, I cm. 



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