SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 19 



Length 7 cm. ; diameter 3-5 cm. ; weight 9 oz. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 103. (Plate III. fig 7, e). 



iv. Kyan. 



h. " buah livong batu jela," a pair of large ear-drops of 

 serpentine, worn by women. They are pointed ovoids, a large 

 hole is bored into the top of each and into it is let a spiral 

 suspensory hook cut out of deer's horn, and secured with a 

 luting of dammar. The two hooks are not symmetrical, one 

 being more coiled than the other. 



Length 9 cm. and 9*5 cm. ; diameter 3*6 cm. weight 3 oz. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 116. (Plate III. fig 1 J). 



v. Sea-Dyak. 



" langgu lungin, " a pair of ear-drops worn by men. Each 

 is a pale blue bead 1*3 cm. in diameter. Through the bead is 

 passed a piece of lead that at one end is worked into an orna- 

 mental suspensory hook, at the other into a large stud. 



[Pd. x. 04]. Catalogue No. 1458. 



2. Kyan — ear pendants. 



a. A pair of brass ear pendants worn by chiefs. They 

 have been cast in the form of a dragon curved on itself in an 

 S-shaped figure and are of unusual weight. 



Weight 1\ oz. From the Long Gilat, Mahakkam River. 



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

 lip. 68). 



Catalogue No. 122. (Plate II T. fig 6, e). 



A Sea-Dyak chief from the Rejang River suggested to me 

 that these were not ear-ornaments but suspensory hooks for 

 gongs, some Ukits however quite recently confirmed their use 

 as ear-ornaments and I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of 

 Brooke Low's original label. 



III. Earrings of Brass Wire. 



These are series of penannular graduated rings of flattened 

 brass wire worn round the margin of the ear conch by Sea- 



R. A, Soc„ No. 43,11905. 



