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ated example of the " pangia," but these two are the only 

 specimens that I have ever seen. At the village of Lanchang, 

 Upper Sadong. all the guests at a feast given in my honour by 

 one of the head-men of the village were sprinkled with water 

 from a basin, the sprinkler being a necklace of a different 

 nature to the " pangia ; " owing to the supposed magical pro- 

 perties of this necklace I was unable to buy it and I was not 

 allowed to examine it very closely. 



3. Sea-Dyak — " kong-kong rekong." 



Bead-necklets worn by adults and children of both sexes. 



a. Necklet composed of a single string of beads of Type 

 5. about 3 mm. in diameter, red, yellow, black and white in 

 colour. A few small cast brass rattles are attached to the 

 necklet at one point. The necklet forms a complete loop with- 

 out a fastening. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 414. 



According to a note by Brooke Low necklets of this 

 character are given by young men to girls as a token of 

 betrothal, but a Sea-Dyak chief from the Rejang River who 

 recently visited the Sarawak Museum ridiculed this statement ; 

 however, amongst the Kyans a girl will give a bead necklet to a 

 man to whom she considers herself betrothed so that it is quite 

 probable that Brooke Low's statement is correct. 



b. necklet composed of a siigle string of beads of Type 

 9 about 6 mm. in diameter ; the majority are pale blue in 

 colour, * but a few are white and white and black ; all are much 

 weathered. In addition to these beads there are three quartz 

 crystal beads with ground faces, seven cornelian beads 

 (Kyan name ahit) of varying shapes and sizes and one bead of 

 Type 10 white in colour with some pale yellow zigzag lines, 

 known to Kyans as bakit tulang and valued at about $5. 



* The pale blue beads are much affected by Kalabits and Muruts 

 and are known to the former as bah a bata, they are worth about 50 

 cents apiece. 



R A. Soc. No. 43, 1905. 



