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However ordinary these objects may be flutes, pipes, receptacles for shuttles and other things - the decorative motifs, the elaborate work and the manner of working employed manifest such variety that we -nay say that this is a decorative art with a character all its own. Precisely because the indigenous clement is so pronounced, we have referred to it in the previous chapter.

The patters, which are frequently complex, acc applied to the hard surface by scorching, engraving, hatching, dotting, and/or scratching, and finished with the aid of coloring matter, black wax, tinfoil or silver leaf.

The general practice is to stop tip the bamboo container with a circular piece of wood, through which a small ribbon is drawn; the Menangkabau place a cap of bamboo on top, the upper side of which is decorated with sumptuous silver filigree. Stoppers are also found, being occasionally embellished with small reliefs. The Dayaks carve small human and animal figures on them. The Bataks make containers of a rather special kind: they have a curved foot at the bottom, and a large stopper sticking out made of shiny horn or polished ebony.

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