SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 59 



A small portion of this ornament is figured by Ling Roth 

 (I.e. Vol. II. p. 46). 



Both the senawir and the tali mulong have been largely 

 displaced by belts made of dollars strung together with silver 

 links, the buckle of the belt is generally of Chinese pattern and 

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

 Sarawak (left-hand branch) rivers wear similar dollar girdles. 



V. COKSETS. 



These are worn by Sea-Dyak and Land-Dyak women only ; 

 the Land-Dyak corset is of quite a different type to the Sea- 

 Dyak article ; there are two varieties of Sea-Dyak corsets : — 

 1. the rawai, 2. the rawai tinchin. 



1. Sea-Dyak — "rawai." 



a. Twenty-five circles of strips of pandan leaf, graduated 

 in size, the topmost * is 30*4 cm. in diameter, the lowest is 21 -4 

 cm. On these circles are closely strung numerous small penan- 

 nular annuli of br? ss ; down the centre of the front of the corset 

 runs a black line formed by 3 rings of rattan-cuticle stained 

 black on each pandan leaf circle, on each side of the black line 

 is a brass ring line flanked by a red strip formed by three 

 rings of rattan cuticle stained red on each rattan circle (cf. orna- 

 mentation of e'tigkrimu p. 46). The pandan leaf circles are 

 bound together by five vertical rods of brass wire which trans- 

 fix all the circles and pin them closely together. There is no 

 means of opening out this corset which has therefore to be 

 slipped over the head and shoulders of the wearer. 



Height 21 cm. 



Brooke Low collection. 



Catalogue No. 144 a. (Plate VI. fig. 13, a). 



b. A similar specimen, but with twenty-eight circles, the 

 topmost is 29 cm. in diam. the lowest 20'5. 



Height 23*5 cm. 



* The specimen shown in the figure is upside down. 

 B. A. Soc, No. 43, 1905. 



