so as to leave a long tail hanging clown behind. Two Jew-harps of 

 bamboo were attached to one of these wreaths and depended down 

 the side of the owner's face. Bracelets of akar batu were very 

 generally used by the men and necklaces of the same material were 

 also common. Two women had bamboo combs stuck in the lock of 

 hair mentioned above, these had the true Negrito type of decoration — 

 that is to say, much of the ui-namentation was produced by cutting 

 away the white outer skin of the bamboo to form the background 

 and leaving the patterns standing out slightly in relief. This back- 

 ground is rubbed with damar kelulut (a resin used by a small species 

 of bee to make its nest) to give it a rich brown appearance, and the 

 white skin of the patterns shows up clearly against it. Sometimes 

 this process is reversed and the bamboo skin removed to form the 

 patterns, the background remaining untouched. In typical Sakai 

 ornamentation neither of these two methods are employed ; the 

 designs are always merely scratched in and coloured. Negrito tribes 

 frequently use scratched-in patterns, but on a finished article there 

 ai'e generally to be found several bands in which the patterns liave 

 been produced by removing the outer skin of the bamboo worn in the 

 jungle. The men were all weai'ing loin-cloths of calico or other 

 European material and the women either sarongs of Malay type girt 

 beneath the breasts or short skirts of aJcctr batu; sometimes, however, 

 both of these were used in conjunction. 



WEAPONS. 



The only weapons seen were the blow-pipe and the spear, the 

 former was generally without decoration on its outer tube and had 

 the spherical mouthpiece typical of Upper Perak, either of wood or 

 gettah. The inner tube was, in the majority of cases, made of two 

 pieces of bamboo placed end to end and joined by a short covering 

 section of the same material. The Negritos saifl that they made the 

 two-jointed tubes themselves but that they could not get bamboo 

 internodes long enough to make a single-piece tube, and that 

 sumpitans of tliis variety were purchased from the Orang Bukit 

 (Sakai of the hill regions beyond the Perak river). All the quivers 

 examined were typically Negrito — that is to say, they were made fi'om 

 a single internode of bamboo without cover of any kind, were 

 stoppered with a plug of leaves and were carried mouth upwards 

 in the loin-cloth. The designs on them were produced by tlie same 

 method as that used for the combs. Some idea of these may be 

 gained from the accompanying rough sketches (PI. XV). The 

 use of the comb patterns as charms is dealt with under another 

 heading. The darts were all nicked about 1| inches from the point 

 in order that when an animal is wounded the rest of the dart may 

 break off and leave the poisoned end in the wound. The head of the 

 dart below the nick is .slightly thickened. In a quiver which 

 contains both poisoned and unpoisoned darts, us well as small 

 spatula3 covered with Ipoli poison, the poisoned darts are marked on 



