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1. Murut— " bani." 



a. Necklet worn by women ; it is composed of nine corne- 

 lian pebbles roughly ground into flat ovals and of twenty-nine 

 beads of Type 9, yellow, red, (dara brak, pig's blood), pale blue 

 (bunan) and black with coloured spots. All are threaded on a 

 double thread, the cornelian pebbles are perforated longitudin- 

 ally by two holes through which the two strings pass. The 

 diameter of the beads ranges from 13 mm. to 9 mm. 



From the Trusan district. [Pd. 2. xii. 02], 



Catalogue No. 1195. (Plate II. fig. 4, b). 



Ling Roth (I.e. Vol. I. p. 213) figures a portion of an Undup 

 (Sea-Dyak) cornelian and bead necklace. 



2. Land-Dyak — ii pangia." 



These are necklets worn by the married women and female 

 witch-doctors (borich) of Upper Sarawak. Charms, that are 

 supposed to be effective in healing disease, in inducing good 

 harvests, etc., are always attached to the necklets. They are 

 worn by married women at festivals, for three months following 

 childbirth, except during the first week, and for three months 

 after the death of a husband ; by the borich they are worn almost 

 constantly, invariably at festivals and magic ceremonies. (For 

 an account of the Land-Dyak witch-doctors cf. Ling Roth Vol. 

 I. p. 259 et. seq). About 50% of the women in the village of 

 Krokong, Upper Sarawak, are borich. 



a. Necklet consisting of eight rows of differently coloured 

 beads (lihich) of Type 5, 3 to 4 mm. in diameter, strung on 

 finely split rattan threads ; the rows are bound together side 

 by side by ten transverse loopings of brass wire so as to form 

 a flat band of concentric rows ; the free ends of the rattan 

 strings are made fast to a row of five Chinese cash bound to- 

 gether by string (toli), these lie flat on the back of the neck of 

 the wearer. The differently coloured beads are arranged in 

 thirteen definite transverse divisions ; starting from one end 

 the arrangement of colours is : — blue and black mixed (songot), 

 yellow (siah), red (bi/mh), opaque white (moi-pu), blue and 

 black mixed, opaque white, transparent white (tagi), with a few 



R. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



