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rounded, one end sharpened. Found in a swamp at 
Claudetown, Baram River. 
Recent. 
No. 1479.—A flattened club of some serpentine 
rock, with a shaped handle and large perforation in it. 
Beautifully smoothed and polished. Length 356 mm.; 
greatest breadth 96 mm. Evidently of Papuan make 
and no doubt brought to Borneo bv Bugis traders. 
It was found in 1881 in the house of Pangeran Samah 
Digadong, the head chief of the Buludupi tribe (Moham¬ 
medans) in the lower Kinabatangan River, North Borneo. 
Presented by G. Hewett, Esq., January 26th, 1905. 
While on the subject of Bornean stone imple¬ 
ments I take this opportunity of correcting a statement 
which appeared recently in the publication*' of another 
Museum. The writer, Dr. R. Hamlvn-Harris, in des¬ 
cribing “The Skertchly Loan Collection" (anthropolo¬ 
gical specimens obtained by Professor S. B. J. Skertchly 
in Europe, Asia and America), says: “The collection also 
“ contains the only two stone implements yet known from 
“ Borneo, but the exhibitor (who found them) could get 
“ no geological proof of their age. He believes they may 
“be older than the introduction of iron into Borneo, say 
“before A.D. 1000.” 
As a matter of fact several stone implements have 
been known from Borneo for a long time. Dr. Haddont 
in the account of his trip to the Baram district, Sarawak, 
in 189S-1899, describes the discovery of (i) a stone adze- 
head made from a thin slab of fibroiite, (ii) a very typical 
adze-head, made from a rather soft stone, (iii) another 
smaller and thicker, (iv) specimens of another type, 
“cylindrical and more or less oval in section, with an 
oblique polished face at one end, which may be either flat 
or more or less concave,” (v) two stone implements; and 
he also heard of others in the possession of natives. 
Mr. Everett’s % stone implement, as noted above, 
was discovered and described over 30 years ago. 
J. C. Moulton. 
* Annals of the Queensland Museum . November ign, p. 185. 
f Head-hunters , Black, White and Brown. By A. C. Haddon, Sc. D., 
F.R.S., 1911, pp. 368-375. Fig. 38. 
I Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. By H. Ling Roth, 1896, 
Vol. II, pp. 281-283 and figures, and Proc. Roy. Soc. 1880, No. 203, pp. 6, 7. 
