Figure 204.—Carved slabs (Lille Mus., after Stolpe): a, made of brown wood, flat and thin, serrated line, sunken triangles near each side edge with apex outward and each triangle opposite alternate teeth in serrated edge. Upper larger trianfles tend to form crescents, base and sides curved. In middle vertical line is row of three sunken lozenges followed by three irregularly placed triangles and finishing off with two mesial lozenges. Carved portion narrows from above down. Lower staff part plain and wider at lower end; around its upper part a thin two-ply twist of coir fiber is wound for several turns, and a long free end through which transverse tufts of fiber have been inserted hangs down. Free cord is also decorated with red feathers not shown in figure, b, made of brown wood: upper end (1) serrated with three deep notches and cut to a lower plane than general surface which commences at serrated line (2); side edges serrated but somewhat irregular at upper part, and lower part has pierced triangles in relation to alternate teeth; vertically placed pairs of compound lozenge-chevron motif (3) cut from two vertical raised bars, showing slight knob (4) between each pair; two transverse raised bars (5) followed by two pairs of lozenge-chevron and two more transverse notched bars; carved portion narrows from above down and further narrows into plain lower staff (6) which is bound with bast (7) and coir fiber cord (8) which supports a twisted cord of coir fiber (9) 1,080 mm. long ornamented with transverse tufts of coir fiber and red and yellow feathers; human front tooth was placed under turns of bast.