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From the Menggrats of Piching, Upper Sadono: River 

 [Pd. viii. 03]. 



Catalogue No. 1306. (Plate II. fig. 5,/). 



Small silver coins of the Netherlands India currency are 

 frequently attached by silver wire chains to the plait encircling 

 these discs. I was informed that the ornaments are almost 

 obsolete now. 



2. Sea-Dyak — " langgu tingga." 



a. A pair of ear-pendants worn by men. Each consists 

 of twelve graduated penannular rings of brass wi< e filed Hat on 

 the inside and of two broad flat penannular bands cut from a 

 sheet of brass. The ends of all these are joined together by a 

 thick luting of dammar ; the smallest brass wire ring tops the 

 series, the flat bands are terminal ; all are further held together 

 by two transverse brass wire clips. The front faces of the ter- 

 minal brass bands are adorned with a simple wed^e pattern, 

 incised, known as " puchok rebong " i.e. shoots of bamboo ; 

 their lower borders are notched and to the teeth of the lower 

 one are attached by brass wire links twenty-seven flat pointed 

 pendants of brass, and to the central pendant of the row is at- 

 tached a flat notched and bifurcated pendant from which hang 

 two short chains of pointed pendants. 



Length 9*5 cm. ; diameter of lower flat band 7'4 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. From the Sakarang River. 



Catalogue No. 6^0 a. 



This is worn clipped to the ear - lobe, but it is a full-dress 

 ornament and not much affected except by young dandies ; ac- 

 cording to Brooke Low they are sometimes worn in addition to 

 the " grunjong. " There is a very good figure of a " langgu 

 tingga " in Ling Roth's book (I.e. vol. II. p. 66). 



3. Sea-Dyak " kenawieng." 



a. A pair of ear-pendants worn by men. Each is a flat 

 brass penannular band from which hang chains of flat pendants, 

 but the two are not quite identical. The ends of the brass pen- 

 annular bands are bound with cloth ; one band is 5 cm. in dia- 

 meter, twenty-one holes are punched in its rim and two circu- 

 lar lines are incised on its front face ; to seven of the holes are 



R. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905 



