DONG-SON CULTURE

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Other figures are playing a kind of mouth-organ, which has a resonance box instruments of this kind are still met with among certain Dayak tribes in Borneo. An instrument of this sort is also to be found depicted on a stone relief at Borobudur, the Buddhist monument in central Java, which can be dated to the middle of the 8th century A. D. The mouth-organ, therefore, was still a familiar instrument amongst the population of Java at that time.

Particularly worthy of note are the designs on the: upper rim of the drum-shell. These represent flat-bottomed ships and human figures FIG. attired and adorned in the same way as on the drumhead. One can also identify various objects, stich as oai3, a shield, a ceremonial axe, and a kettle drum; the animal depicted is presumably, pig.

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