I bought in the town of Patani. It was called a " cock kris " (kris ay am) by the man 

 from whom I bought it, and appears to have belonged to a member of the theatrical 

 profession. The handle is carved out of soft wood, gilt, painted red and blue, and 

 decorated with artificial saphires and emeralds. As the supply of these had evidently 

 been limited, their place is taken on one side by drops of similarly coloured resin. 

 This is the only specimen of the type I have seen. 



Plate E was designed to show the evolution of what is nowadays perhaps the 

 most common type of kris handle, namely that figured in Fig. 4, which represents an 

 example from the Patani States in my own possession. Figs. 5 and 6, representing 

 closely allied types, are from Javanese examples which probably belonged to Sir 

 Stamford Raffles and are now in the Industrial Section of the Indian Museum. Figs. 

 1,2,3,7,8 represent an interesting series selected from the fine collection in the Royal 

 Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, to the Curator of which I am indebted for photo- 

 graphs of them. Unfortunately their exact provenance is doubtful, but probably most, 

 if not all of them are from Java or Bali. The type represented in Fig. 4 is known 

 to the Malays of Patani as kris jawi demam (probably short for kris orang jawi 

 berdemam), the " kris of the fever-stricken Javanese." The resemblance to a man sick 

 with fever and clutching his chest with both arms is striking, especially when it is con- 

 sidered in the light of a study of the forms figured in the same row. Fig. 9 represents 

 a knife (? ceremonial) from Java in which the blade is cut out into a figure somewhat 

 resembling that represented by the handle of the kris tajang. The knife is of the 

 general type (with a short, somewhat curved blade set on a rather long handle) known 

 to the Patani Malays as pisau raut or ''peeling knife" and used largely in splitting 

 and peeling rattan (Malay, raut-an, the "peeled thing"). The specimen is from the 

 same collection as the handles figured in Figs. 6 and 7 on the same plate. I am in- 

 debted to Messrs. I. H. Burkill and D. Hooper, of the Industrial Section of the 

 Museum, for the opportunity of figuring these specimens. 



N. Ann and ai,e. 



Plan of a Persian Gentleman' 's House. (Plate F.) 



The diagram illustrates the plan of a Persian gentleman's house, of a style rather 

 old fashioned. Such houses are single-storied and are built of flat, square, kiln-burnt 

 bricks. As wood is scarce, there are no beams in the roof, which is flat, except for a 

 dome in the centre of each room. It is owing to the excellent cement (gach or 

 gypsum), which is abundant in Persia, that the roofs can be constructed as they are 

 out of flat bricks with no supporting beams or pillars. The whole of the outside of the 

 house, including the roof, is covered with a plaster made of mud and chopped straw. 



The inside of the rooms and of the ceilings is lined with snow-white hard 

 cement. The pattern of the ceiling is exceedingly intricate and difficult to describe. 

 Viewed from the inside, it is as though the centre dome had four arches cut out of 

 it, half of a smaller dome springing out of each arch. From each of these dependent 



