284 THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OP THE MALAYS# 
From their necks are suspended by silken or velvet strings or 
ribbons, gold buttons, doko or broad pieces of gold with or¬ 
naments, those of the girls being crescent shaped, and those of 
the boys with an irre gular curved margin, tanghal , or amulets, 
small pieces of gold, square shaped for boys and crescent 
shaped for girls. The gimpe 3? are small round pieces of gold 
suspended by gold chains. Brae lets are worn, thin and flat 
for the girls and round for the boys. The knfcu harimau (tigers 
claws) is a small piece of gold into which the points of two 
tigers claws are fixed, the ends being shod with gold. The 
mane are gold beads worn at the wrist. Earrings and pendants, 
and bangles or anklets, gilang kaki, of silver adorn the girls. 
