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on a tightly fitting outer tube made from a single internode ; the 

 tribes who use outer tubes composed of two internodes and their 

 intervening node on the support afforded by the narrow muzzle, the 

 remains of the node on the inside of the outer tube, the covering 

 section of the inner tube joint, which touches the inner wall of the 

 outer tube, and the attachment of the mouth-piece which is aflfixed 

 to the inner tube end and fits closely into the outer ; whereas the 

 users of two-piece outer tubes have the inner tube supported at the 

 junction of the mouth-piece, and along the whole length of the small 

 distal section of the outer tube. With regard to the inner tube of 

 the Cheka type of blow-pipe it has no peculiarities calling for notice 

 beyond the fact that its proximal section is rather short which 

 brings the covering section of the bamboo over the joint well down 

 within the larger portion of the outer tube, without touching it. 



The Pangan dart-quiver of the Cheka river is of rather an 

 intermediate type. The only specimen obtained, which was 

 purchased from the Ulu Cheka people, is a good example. It is a 

 plain bamboo receptacle 39 cms. high with a cover of soft plaited 

 pandanus, the top of which is slightly convex and rises near its edge 

 into four very slightly marked points. This is rather reminiscent of 

 the type of cover found on many of the quivers belonging to 

 what Skeat calls the Kuan tan type of blow-pipe, (see blow-pipe and 

 quiver described below on p. 210). The Cheka quiver is rather 

 taller than those of the ordinary Selangor type and contains extremely 

 long darts, exceeding in length those from any aboriginal tribe in 

 the Perak Museum collection, their length being on average 33 cms. 

 The standard for measuring blow-pipe darts according to the Ulu 

 Cheka people is from the maker's elbow to the bottom joint of his 

 little finger. The Pangan of Ulu Aring, Kelantan, as Skeat tells us, 

 also use this standard as well as another, the length of the foot. 

 The tops of several dart heads in the quiver are marked with a 

 black cross, which the Pangans said was merely made for ornament. 

 The poisoned darts of which there are only three in the quiver are 

 all unmarked, and of the unpoisoned ones some have the marking, 

 and others not. In a few cases the base of the conical dart-head has 

 also been blackened to a height of about a third of an inch. The 

 poison used on the darts was said to be made from ipoh (antiaris 

 toxicaria), ipoh akar (strychnos sp. ?), bangkong tihus (?) and 

 other vegetable substances. 



MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 

 Only a single musical instrument was obtained from the Pangan, 

 this being a simple two stringed zither of the kind known to the 

 Malays as " gendang batak." It consists of two fine strings made 

 from a single length of liana stretched longitudinally on an internode 

 of bamboo. The upper points of attachment of the strings (i.e., the 

 ends of the length of liana) are bound several times round the body 



