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they at first replied that they were extinct, having been killed off by 

 diseases, (mati sakit,) but on thinking the matter over further 

 they said that there were still six other members of it left, who 

 had all been converted to Islam. The Avriter is rather inclined to 

 think, judging by the two males seen, that this "puwak" of Pangan 

 must have been vei'y pure. The hair of both individuals tliough 

 cut short, appeared to be typically Negrito and in facial appearance 

 they were also true to type, the childish chai-acter of the expression 

 being particularly well seen in the elder Pangan. In the boy 

 the skin colour was an intense black, but this character unfortun- 

 ately does not show up well in the photographs. In the man the 

 skin was affected by a form of skin disease, rather a different 

 species from that causing the disease called " kurap." Owing to 

 this the skin colour was masked by a scaly crust due to the disease 

 which gave it a roughened whitish appearance, but probably in 

 reality his skin was almost as dark as that of the boy. The man 

 had married a local Sakai woman. Neither of the Pangan could 

 speak their own native language, having been adopted at such an 

 early age that it had been forgotten and replaced as their mother 

 tongue by the dialect of the Retang Sakai. 



The head measurements of the adult Pangan are : 



Head length. Head breadth. Cephalic Index. 

 178 mm. ... 143 mm 80.3 



ON A PANGAN BLOW-PIPE OBTAINED ON THE TEKAI RIVER. 



This blow-pipe was obtained from Kemaman Jakuns living on 

 the Tekai river, who said that they had purchased it from a 

 wandering tribe of Pangan who had camped at the headwaters of 

 the river. The weapon consists of an outer tube of dark brown 

 bamboo built up of two pieces, the proximal portion of the tube being 

 much the longest (distal portion length 38 cms. proximal 184 cms). 

 The join is effected by shaving down the further end of the proximal 

 portion until the nearer end of the distal portion fits neatly over it. 

 (The shaved down portion, length 1.6 cms., is not included in the 

 measurements given above). To strengthen the tube further the 

 nearer portion of the distal section of bamboo which covers the join 

 is bound with Ijok (?) fibre string, and coated with some kind of 

 gum or resin, (perhaps ambalou). The muzzle end of the outer tube 

 is also bound in the same manner. Below the joint the outer tube 

 is ornamented with the three circular bands of incised lines disposed 

 at equal distances, each band containing four lines. The part of the 

 outer tube nearest the mouth-piece has three similar bands, the 

 distances between them being 3.5 cms. The upper of the two spaces 

 between the bands is filled up with diamond shaped cross-hatchings. 

 The lower or proximal end of ishe outer tube is again finished off 

 with a binding of vegetable fibre string. The mouth-piece of the 

 weapon is spheroidal and is composed of a ball of some kind of wild 



