(25) Materials for making blowpipe darts, together with one 



completed dart. 

 (2G) Quiver (Besisi. /"/.•) with somewhat conical cap. Inside 



lined with i-eeds lashed to quiver to contain separate 



darts. Cap filled with down {rabok) from the base of the 



leaf stalks of a palm. 



Miscellaneous. — 



(27) A^arious decorations made by the Besisi for use at a ]\lalay 

 mai'i'iage — viz. : 



Buiuja piiiang ; 



Kris ■ 



Kambo.r (a palm, Zalacca wallichiaiia, Mart.) ; 



Bnnga serai (lemon-grass) ; 



Suhang (ear-studs) ; 



Buah jerei {?jering) (Piihecolobium spp.). 



[These ornaments, which are made out of plaited palm leaves, are 

 very characteristic of many of the Selangor aboriginal tribes. 

 Dr. Annandale and myself met with similar objects among the 

 " oraiig bukit "' of tlie Kuala Lumpur district in 1902 (c.f. Fat^cicuU 

 Malaijenses, Anthropology, i., p. 51, 1903).] 



(i. TRAPS. 



Pelandok Tkap {Jerat Leher). 



The jerat leher is a slip noose trap which is set in a pelandok 

 (mouse-deer) track. The noose is arranged so that the pelandok shall 

 get its head into it and in its struggles to become free pull the loop 

 of the cord from under a peg, Avhich holds down a bent bamboo. 

 When the tension on tke bamboo is thus i-eleased it springs back to 

 its original position and in doing so it tightens the cord I'ound the 

 pelandok's neck, effectually hanging it. 



Pelandok Teap {Jerat jong). 



Tliis is a noose trap for the feet which is set with a springe and 

 trigger. A young and flexible bamboo is first fixed upright in the 

 ground and to the top of it a rotan coid nineteen or twenty inches 

 long is attached, at the end of which is a small peg, blunt at one end 

 but sharpened at the other. The rotan cord, which is otherwise 

 single, is strengthened by its end being twisted round the peg and 

 then for about an inch upwai'ds. At the upper end of this twisted 

 portion of the rotan a cord of ti^rap bark is attached which ends in a ring. 

 Before setting the trap this i-ing is threaded back over the cord so 

 that a running noose is formed. When the bamboo spi-inge has been 

 fixed in position and the noose made, a piece of bamboo about sixteen 

 inches long is taken and bent to form a flat-topped arch. This, when 

 its ends have been sharpened, is fixed tirmly in. the ground. The 

 cord with the peg is led under the arch, that with the noose above it. 

 The peg is placed so as to rest with its blunt end against the top bar 



