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III. Bead Necklets. 



Bead necklets are worn by both sexes of every tribe. 



The beads from which the necklets and girdles in the 

 Sarawak Museum are made may be grouped under eleven 

 headings, and in order to avoid much circumlocution and repeti- 

 tion in the descriptions of the necklets and girdles given below, 

 the component beads will be referred to, as a rule, merely by 

 their respective group numbers : — 



Native-made beads. 



Type 1. Quartz crystals, bored.* 



Type 2. Cornelian and agate pebbles, ground and bored.* 



Type 3. Columella of shells and shell discs. 



Type 4. Brass wire wound into the shape of a long bead.f 



Imported beads. 



Type 5. Small glass and glazed clay beads of different colours, 

 ranging in size from 2 mm. in diameter to 4 mm. ; of 

 quite modern European manufacture and importation. 



Type 6. Large glass beads of different colours, generally 

 spherical but sometimes with flat faces, sometimes cylin- 

 drical. Some of these are antique. 



Type 7. Modern glass beads of Venetian make, ovoid in shape, 

 of different colours with crude designs in other colours 

 roughly painted over them. About 5 mm. in diam. 



Type 8. Small discoid glazed clay beads, yellow or pale blue 

 in colour, known as labang. Antique specimens are 

 valued at $1 apiece. About 4*8 mm. in diam. Supposed 

 to be of Venetian origin. 



* Some of these beads are bored locally by the pump-drill. 



f Made by the Malohs (cf. Ling Roth I.e. Vol. II. p. 73); there 

 are no specimens in the Sarawak Museum, 



R. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905 



