SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 2 5 



by one of the hooks or else by a beaded loop of string. 5-0 cm. 

 4-5 cm. 



From the Leppu Tan of the Batang Kyan River, Dutch 

 Borneo, 



R. S. Dougias, Esq. [P, 28. iii. 00]. 



Catalogue No. 1068 a (Plate III. fig. 6,/). 



b. A similar but smaller specimen 4*5 cm. x 4*2 cm. 

 From the same locality as the above. 

 R. S. Douglas Esq. [P. 28. iii. 00]. 

 Catalogue No. 1068 b. 



VII. Ear-pegs. 



Ear-pegs (udang) are worn by men of the Ukit, Punan, 

 Kanowit, Tanjong, Skapan, Kenyah, Kyan and allied tribes; some 

 Sea-Dyaks also have quite recently adopted the same ornament. 

 The udancj are either the canines of the clouded leopard, Felis 

 nebulosa or imitations of these, carved from the casque of the 

 solid-billed hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil. Amongst the Kyans and 

 Kenyahs the leopard's teeth can only be worn by men who have 

 taken heads and the pegs made from the hornbill casque only 

 by chiefs. The pegs are thrust through large holes, punched 

 with a sharpened section of bamboo, in the upper part of the ear- 

 conch and are usually worn with the points directed downwards 

 and slightly outwards ; as a rule only one is worn in each ear, 

 but Brooke Low (cf. Ling Roth I.e. vol. II. p. 69) states that the 

 Uma Lesong wear two teeth in each ear, the upper one pointing 

 upwards, the lower one downwards. Figures of natives wearing 

 ear-pegs may be found in Ling Roth's book) vol. I. pp. 12, 14, 

 19, 23). When these ornaments are not in use* the lobes in 

 the ears are filled with a plug of wood or a pledget of cloth or 

 tobacco. 



* A Kenyah chief of the Baram River, Tama Bulan by name, 

 when on a visit to Kuching some years ago, never wore his ear-pegs ; 

 when asked the reason, he replied that the evil spirits would recog- 

 nise him by his ear-pegs and seeing him so far from his home would 

 hasten there themselves and wreak their wicked will on all his people 

 and belongings ; without his ear-pegs he was practically disguised or 

 at least unrecognisable. 



B. A Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



