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bamboo is pushed over the inner tube just above the mouthpiece.
This may be either larger or smaller than the outer
tube. If the former is the case, the end of the outer tube is
somewhat pared away and the short section fitted over it ; if
the latter, the end of it is fitted into the outer tube. The only
attempts at ornamentation on the blow-pipes externally
were annular scratched-in markings below the muzzles and
occasionally some slight patterns on the extra bamboo
section next the mouth-piece. The dart quivers were all of
the usual type of covered quiver obtained from Upper Perak,
and the Piah and Plus valleys. The main type of decoration
is said by Annandale to be derived from the tail of the Argus
pheasant, but, as I found that I was given several names for
each kind of pattern,—the Argus pheasant was not one
obtained,— I ceased making further enquiries. I also took
pattern names among the Jehehr with very similar results.
Descriptions of several specimens of bows from Upper
Perak having been given by Skeat, I do not think that I can
add anything very material to what has already been recorded,
but I set down here a few noticeable features with regard to
them, and their arrows and quivers. The bows which were of
some kind of palm wood, ibul or menhar (unidentified) were
furnished with shoulders at top and bottom. The permanently
attached end of the cord was fastened with a knot at one pair
of shoulders. The other end was furnished with a loop, which,
when the bow was strung, was fitted over the shoulders at the
other extremity, and when loose was allowed to slip down
the wood. The outer faces of the bows were rounded, but
the inner, though somewhat flattened, always had a ridge
running down the middle from end to end. The bow is bent
for stringing by placing the end at which the cord is fixed on
the ground, grasping, the other end in the hands and pressing
with the knee of the right leg, the wood of the bow being
gripped near the ground between the big and second toes.
None of the arrows I saw had detachable foreshafts, as
had some described by Mr. Wray. The blades of the arrowheads
were broadly lanceolate, or spatulate, in shape, and
furnished with either one or two barbs at their base. A stem
of at least 5.5. cms in length, often considerably more, projected
from the base of the blade and the end of this was
lashed into the bamboo arrow-shaft with a rattan binding, but
more than two-thirds of it were left protruding. The notch
for the cord across the top of the shaft was in the same plane
as the flattened arrow-head, as was also the feathering. This
consisted of two long and narrow strips of the tail feathers of
a hornbill, fixed to the shaft at their ends with sliglit bindings
covered over with damar kelnlut, but free along the rest of their
length. The part of the shaft to which the feathers were
attached was ornamented with incised annular markings. In
some arrows these markings extended beyond the lower point
of attachment of the feathers. The quivers were made, as is
usual, from an internode of bamboo with a node to form the