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beam, or Tailan-hiaUt that resting on tlie pillars, we have the 

 carving represented on page 186, and called fata huhur-talam ; 

 the second tigiire rejtresenta the carving on the Pahakin^ or 

 tlie lower lieani of the framework of the house; whore tlie 

 tata simhar commences the designs, followed by the kita 

 ttwim, which either continues tlie 

 whole length of the beam alter- 

 nately reversed till it is closed 

 a^rain by a second fafa simhar, or 

 both are used throughout alter- 

 nately erect and reversed. The 

 interior of the raised portion is 

 either left uncarved or is adorned 

 with the foliage and flowers, of 

 which the outlines appear in the 

 design. This is the Ogan pattern 

 par exmllenm. On the door-posts tat4 bamo-ramo. 



I found in some houses iuta ramo- 



ramo {ramo means, wild bciist) which is not true Ogan, but 

 adopted from the Semindo people, and it is extremely interest- 

 ing to observe how effective an oraament has resulted from 

 the representation of a tiger or some snch animal, in which the 



&EMl!flti> CARVINM— 1 ATA OTAR GAMOOLrK«*— ON" A IfOVSE 

 IN rBlfJOAin>ONAN. 



eye has become a lloral ornament, and the legs and tail have 

 developed into scrolls. 



On the last day of my stay hero I spent a forenoon with my 

 host in seeing the sports still going on at tlie neighbouring 

 village of Lnntar, which were preliminary to a feast which 

 was to close the some twenty days' festivities — a sort of 

 high pagan mass for the rest of the soul of its Chief*s father. 

 In the village was collected a large crowd from surround- 

 ing margas and even from as far as Palembang, the scene 



