Many young native women like to wear ankle bells. In the Iban language these ankle bells are called "gerunong". Tied around their ankles these instruments produce warm and rich chime sound when shaken or as the legs of the person who wears them move. Iban women wear these gerunong as part of the accessories to enhance their beauty. I have noticed Indian cultural dancers like to put a lot of these bells around their ankles. However, I also found that these ankle bells were also used to decorate darts container by some blowpipe shooting competition participants. The picture here speaks it all.
A ''temilah'' (dart container) decorated with brass ankle bells
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