. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. IN SUMATRA. 187 beam, or Tailan-hian, that resting on the pillars, we have the carving represented on page 186, and called tata huhur-talam; the. second ligure represents the carving on the Pahatan, or the lower beam of the framework of the house; where the tata sinibar commences the designs, followed by the tata aican, which either continues the whole length of the beam alter- nately reversed till it is closed again by a second tata simhar, or both are used through
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. IN SUMATRA. 187 beam, or Tailan-hian, that resting on the pillars, we have the carving represented on page 186, and called tata huhur-talam; the. second ligure represents the carving on the Pahatan, or the lower beam of the framework of the house; where the tata sinibar commences the designs, followed by the tata aican, which either continues the whole length of the beam alter- nately reversed till it is closed again by a second tata 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 Ogau pattern par excellence. On the door-posts I found in some houses tata ramo- ramo (ramo means, wild beast) which is not true Ogan, but adopted from the Semindo people, and it is extremely interest- ing to observe how effective an ornament has resulted from the representation of a tiger or some such animal, in which the. TAIL Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg), 1851-1932. New York, Harper
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