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with elaborate knots. The beads are nearly all of Type 6. 

 various shades of blue in colour (tobi and kamiring), there are 

 four beads of the variety known to Kyans as klam dian; one bead 

 is of opaque white glass. The value of the beads 304 in number 

 has been assessed at $150. 



Length G2 cm. H. H. the Ranee of Sarawak [P. 24. 

 vi. 95]. 



Catalogue No. 967. 



The girdle was found at Lundu. 



Somewhat similar bead-girdles are worn by Kyan and 

 Kenyan women ; the beads are geuerally antique and of Vene- 

 tian make (TyP es 9 and 11) and are very highly prized (cf. Ling 

 Roth I.e. Vol. II. p. 55). 



Dusun women wear round the hips '• rows of red beads 

 closely threaded to a depth or six inches or so " (Whitehead, Ex- 

 ploration of Mt. Kina Balu, p. 100 and Plate). 



Murut women wear a somewhat similar bead girdle. 



0. Tanjong — " takup." 



a. A string of beads of Venetian manufacture blue in 

 colour with white-edged red spots ; to the string is attached 

 a piece of Lima shell ( convt c/urateiims). 



Worn by little girls. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 199. (Plate VI. tig. 12, d). 



Figured by Ling ltoth (1. c. Vol. II. p. 42). Ling Roth on 

 the same page also ligures a giidle and shell vine leaf from W. 

 Borneo, the girdle appears to consist of seven strips of rattan on 

 which are threaded numerous small brass rings. 



III. Chain Girdles. 



1. Dusun — chain girdle. 



a. Consists of twenty-seven small chains of brass wire 

 penannular links ; the chains are held together by a string lacing. 



It, A. Soc, No. 143,1905. 



