56 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



II. Bead Girdles. 



1. Sea-Dyak— " entelo." 



a. A girdle composed of live rows of large beads strung 

 on strips of split rattan worn by women suspended from the 

 lower border of the corset. The beads are of three kinds : — 

 (1) long white shell beads made by boring longitudinally the 

 columella of a large gastropod shell (Type 3. Kyan name ino 

 seh), (2) large spherical glass beads (Type 6) the dark-blue ones 

 are known as tobi and are antique, the paler blue are known as 

 kamiriag and are more modern ; (3) large spherical glazed clay 

 beads, red in colour (Type 9. Kyan mime dara bouin i.e. pig's 

 blood). These alternate with one another, some shell discs 

 being interspersed. At one end of the girdle is attached a 

 short loop of beads of Type 11, some are blue with a red zigzag 

 (known as Iclam batting umar. i.e. bead worth part of a house 

 and often worn hanging from the ear Jobe by Kalamantan 

 tribes of the Baram district). (Plate VII. fig. 6) ; some are of 

 green glass with red and yellow circles painted on (known as 

 klam buang kowit, i.e. bear's claws beads) (Plate VIII. fig, 8), 

 and one is a fluted bead, of blue a lass (known as klam diem, i.e. 

 durian bead,) (Plate VIII. fig. 9) and a few common yellow 

 beads are intermixed. 



Length 94 cm. Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 146. (Plate VI. fig. 12, a). 



It seems likely that this girdle was looted from Kyans by 

 Sea-Dyaks, as some of the beads are antique and antique 

 beads in the possession of Sea-Dyaks have almost invariably 

 been formerly the property of the more aboriginal natives of 

 Borneo. 



A portion of this girdle has been figured by Ling Roth 

 (1. c. Vol. II. p. 46). 



2. Milano — bead girdle. 



a. A girdle composed of five rows of beads strung on 

 strips of split rattan, in the middle is a cross piece of rattan 

 through which the rattan strips pass and at each end are 

 similar cross-pieces ; the loose ends of the rattan strips are joined 



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