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b. A very similar pair but the expanded head is rather 

 differently shaped. 



Length (in a straight line) 8*5 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. Formerly the property of Laki 

 Bato a distinguished chief in the Rejang River. 



Catalogue No 605. (Plate IV. fig. 9, b). 



4. Kenyan — i; bula wai." 



One pair of ear-pegs very similar to the two preceding 

 examples. The " root" is carved into a pointed projection and a 

 flat spiral with horns; they are of a beautiful crimson, the natural 

 Culour of the hornbill's casque ; the colour has faded from the 

 two Kyan pairs. 



Length (in a straight line) 9 cm. and 8-7 cm. 



Acquired by exchange from a Sea-Dyak ii. 02. 



Catalogue No 1152. (Plate IV. fig 9, a). 



VIII. Ear-plugs and Studs. 



Ear-plugs are worn by Long Wai and Tring men, by Murut 

 men and women, and by Brunei Malay, Sea-Dyak, Tanjong, 

 Punau, and Milano women ; they are worn in the distended ear- 

 lobe. Ling Roth ( 1. c. vol. II. p. 69) figures a pair of hand- 

 some silver ear-studs known as krebu worn by Bakong women, 

 the highly ornamental head of the stud can be screwed off the 

 shank which is provided with a real thread of metal ;. there 

 are no specimens of this type of ornament in the Sarawak 

 Museum. 



1. Murut—" oul buluh." 



a. A pair of ear-plugs worn by men, in the lobe of the ear; 

 each is a transverse section of bamboo 2 cm. in diameter, 1 cm. 

 deep ; a circular piece of looking glass is fitted into one end of 

 the section. 



From the Trusan River, near the coast. 



Dr. G. D. Haviland coll. 



Catalogue No. 745. (Plate VIII. fig. 4). 



Somewhat similar ear-plugs are said to be worn by the 

 men of some Land-Dyak sub-tribes. 



B. A, Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



