62 SARAWAK ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION. 



Very similar buttons are figured by Ling- Roth (1. c. Vol. 

 II. p. 42) ; they are worn by Milano, Kanowit and Tanjong 

 women along the tightly-fitting sleeves of their jackets, also by 

 Brunei Malay and Kadyan women down the front of their 

 jackets. Strings of them are sometimes worn by Sea-Dyak 

 women as necklets and one or two will often serve as the 

 button of a bead necklet. 



II. Buckles. 



Buckles other than the primitive clasps of brass corsets and 

 belts described above are not often met with amongst the 

 Bornean tribes ; the specimen described below was probably 

 made in the Malay Peninsula where this kind of work is not 

 uncommonly met with. 



1. Malay — buckle. 



a. A sharply pointed oval sheet of iron, convex from front 

 to back, the border stepped. A conventional phyllomorphic 

 design has b^en beaten in basso relievo into the front face of the 

 ornament, over this a plate of silver has been laid and the two 

 sheets of metal have been welded together, subsequently the 

 front face of the buckle has been filed until all the silver has 

 been removed except that filling in the sunk phyllomorphic 

 design ; the result is a design in silver on a back ground of iron. 

 At the back of the ornament is a large iron loop. 



14 cm. x 7*1 cm. 



Said to come from Sirhassen, Natuna Islands. [Pd]. 



Catalogue No. 1037. 



The belts made of dollars strung together by silver wire 

 links much worn by Sea-Dyak and Land-Dyak women are 

 generally fastened with a silver S-shaped hook of Chinese manu- 

 facture and design. 



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