48 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



with a graduated brass wire coil is given by Ling Roth (1. c. 

 Vol. I. p. 21); the men do not wear brass wire leg-ornaments 

 to such an extent, but cover the arms with brass wire separate 

 rings. The Land-Dyak women of the Upper Sadong and Upper 

 Sarawak (left-hand branch) rivers always wear a coil of brass 

 wire (sarin) on the legs from below the knee to just above the 

 ankle, the coils are wound very tightly round the leg and in 

 course of time considerable distortion of the calf of the leg is 

 produced ; even small girls of 7 or 8 years of age are burdened 

 with quite a considerable weight of metal. Coils of brass wire 

 alternating with shell armlets (cf. p. ) are worn on the arms 

 from below the shoulder to the wrist. Land-Dyak men of the 

 Sauh, Serambo and Singgi districts wear armlets of brass wire 

 coils at festivals. Dusun women wear a coil of brass wire round 

 the wrists and round the ankles, also separate rings. 



1. Dusun — armlet. 



a. Ring of brass wire worn as a bracelet by women. 



Diam. 6*7 cm. 



R. Shelf ord [P. 28. ix. 03]. 



Catalogue No. 1336. 



2. Sea-Dyak — " tumpa gurang. " 



a. Four sets of brass wire rings, sixty to a set, worn as 

 armlets by men ; the rings have been arranged in graduated 

 sizes on rolls of bark cloth ; nearly all are penannular and a 

 few in each set have been incised on the outside with lines and 

 circles.* The smallest rings are worn just above the elbow, 

 the largest on the wrist and upper arm. 



Average diam. of largest rings 7 cm. ; of smallest 5 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 133. (Plate V. fig. 11, c). 



*According to Brooke Low these incised rings are known as 

 tenklai but gurang kinkieng is probably their correct name (vide 

 infra). 



Jour. Straits Branch 



