26 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



1. Skapan — "udang." 



a. One pair of canines of the clouded leopard, Felis 

 nebulosa. The root of each tooth is transversely bored and a 

 bead work tassel is usually attached in this position. 



Length (in a straight line) 77 cm. and 7*6 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No 128. (Plate IV. fig. 9, c). 



Ling Roth (I.e. vol. IV. p. 68) figures a pair of similar 

 ornaments from Kapit, Rejang River ; but each tooth is provided 

 with a bead-work tassel and they are joined together bv a 

 beaded string, which, when the pegs are in position, passes round 

 the back of the wearer's head ; on the same page are also figured 

 a pair of teeth pegs with gutta knobs in the collection of Dr. 0. 

 Hose. The tusk decorated with hair and cloth figured at the 

 right-hand bottom corner of the same page with the legend 

 "Ear peg (?) (Brooke Low collection)" is a sword-belt-toggle 

 and not an ear ornament. 



2. Punan — " udang tandok kleho." 



a. One pair of ear-pegs made of buffalo horn and shaped 

 to imitate a leopard's canines ; the trenchant inner edge of the 

 tooth and the distinction between the part of the tooth above 

 the gum and the part below is imitated with remarkable fidel- 

 ity. The " root " of each peg is transversely bored. 



Length (in a straight line) 7-1 cm. and 6-9 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No 130. 



3. Kyan — " udang betelu' ; (or " beto)." 



a. One pair of ear- pegs worn by chiefs, carved from the 

 casque of the hornbill Ehinop/ax vigil and shaped to imitate the 

 canines of the clouded leopard ; the part of the ornament 

 corresponding to the root of the tooth is expanded, flattened and 

 fretted into a sort of spiral pattern. 



Length (in a straight line) 9-1 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. Figured by Ling Roth (I.e. vol. IV. 

 p. 68). 



Catalogue No. 129. 



Jour, Straits Branch 



