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attached by brass wire links single flat pendants of different 

 shapes and three short strings of small pendants whose lower 

 ends are connected to a flat cross-piece of brass ; from five pro- 

 cesses of this hang- five strings of small flat pendants, two being 

 short and three long ; the central long one carries a cross- 

 piece from five lower processes of which also hang five flat 

 diamond-shaped pendants. The other ornament of the pair has 

 the brass band only 4-1 cm. in diameter, and eleven holes 

 punched in its rim, a slender chain replaces the central string of 

 pendants described above. 



Brooke Low collection. From the Sakarang River. 



Catalogue No. 600. (Plate IV. fig. 8, a). 



V. Ear-pendants of Bead-Work. 

 1. Kanowit — " tekulong. " 



a. A pair of ear-pendants worn by women (? in festal 

 dances) ; each is a short strip of bead-work 5*1 cm. x 32 cm, 

 with a bead-fiinge ; every strand of the fringe is terminated by 

 a little piece of red-flannel (cf. Ling Roth 1, c. vol. II. p. 73). 

 The beads are small common European ones in several colours. 

 I have no information as to the manner in which these pendants 

 are attached to the ears. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 413. 



VI. Ear-pendants op Horn. 



Kenyan men, chiefly of the sub-tribes Leppu Tau, Tepu, 

 Leppu Aga, and Uma Lisan, wear an ear-pendant, such as that 

 described below, in one ear, the other ear may carry a different 

 sort of pendant or may be devoid of ornament altogether ; the 

 pendants are never worn in pairs. 



1. Kenyan — " isang." * 



a. A thin piece of buffalo horn, slightly curved and carved 

 into the shape shewn in the figure, it is supposed to represent 

 a prawn (urang). The pendant is suspended from an ear lobe 



* Isang is ageneric term for ear-pendants. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



