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large penannular earrings of (?)tin. The sketches are rather 

 fanciful and I suspect that the Saghai are only a Kyan sub- 

 tribe, comparable to the Long Wai, etc. 



A. W. Nieuwenhuis in "In Centraal Borneo" figures 

 (PI. XCIII) a Long Gilat girl wearing earrings like No. 115 

 but quite twice their diameter; in the same work are also 

 figured (PI. LXII and PI. LXXXVI) Kyan boys at Bloeoe with 

 penannular earrings of this type. Carl Bock (!. c. PI. 10) 

 figures a Long Wahou man with similar earrings. 



3. Bakatan and Sea- Dyak— ear-ornaments of tin (worn by 

 men). 

 These ornaments are not rings, but they are nevertheless 

 included under the heading I. as they are made from cylindrical 

 lengths of tin cast in a bamboo mould ; the tin is not bent into 

 a ring nor into one turn of a spiral, but into a long loop, the 

 ends of which are curled up to form small flat spirals, whilst 

 other ornamentations may be added. A remarkable gold 

 ornament found in August 1902 by gold-seekers in river gravel 

 at Pankalan Ampat, Sarawak river, is figured on Plate III. fig. 

 6, d, for purposes of comparison. Whether this ornament is 

 indeed an ear-pendant is not very certain, but it is singularly 

 like the Bakatan ear-ornaments; it is possibly of Hindoo origin, 

 and certainly not a product of indigenous handicraft. 



i. Bakatan. 



a. " urut " a pair of tin ear-ornaments, made from a 

 cylindrical length of tin bent into an oval loop, the end of the 

 loops rolled up outwards to form small flat spirals. 



Length in a straight line 4-9 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. Figured by Ling Roth (1. c. vol. 

 II. p. 68). 



Catalogue No. 124. (Plate III. fig. 6, c). 



b. "urut," somewhat similar ornaments, but the tin has 

 been ground flat, the loop is more elongated and the ends have 

 been turned up outwards to form S-shaped figures. 



Length in a straight line 6 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 345. (Plate III. fig. 6, b). 



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