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Said to be from the Ulu Sungkai and called themselves 

 " Senoi." Skin disease (Kurap) was very prevalent among 

 these people. 



Nos. 14 — 31. 



Living near Jeram Kawan on the Sungkai River or higher 

 up in the hills. Houses built on piles 3-6 ft. high, bertam 

 palm roof and sides, bamboo floors : clearings contained 

 tapioca, sugarcane, bananas, with langsat and durian trees. A 

 few small dogs were to be seen, generally tied by a hind leg to 

 a house post. 



This party were free from " Kurap." Many had painted 

 their faces, the pattern consisting of either a red or yellow 

 ground on which black markings were laid. The painting on 

 the women was more ornate than on the men ; girl children 

 were less elaborately decorated than the adults. The latex of 

 the Jelutong tree (Dyera costulata) was used for this purpose. 



The men wore bark-cloth 'chawat,' fillets of bark-cloth 

 twisted round grass with pendants of grass overhanging the 

 nape, also woven fillets of palm leaf. Women all wore either 

 sarongs or sheets of bark-cloth supported by a belt in which 

 they kept young squirrels or rats, suckling them from time to 

 time. Other ornaments were ear plugs of leaves, leaf decoration 

 in their chignons, hair combs and skewers : attached to their 

 girdles were bunches of sweet-scented grasses and fibre. The 

 principal use of the combs was for scratching the scalp when 

 parasites became too active. Both sexes wore nose skewers 

 up to 8 or 9 inches in length, bracelets and necklaces of 

 coloured beads and seeds and silver rings. 



This group had no dances but sang well. "Women sat 

 pounding on stones with the end of a short piece of bamboo 

 closed by it internode (chentukn) while the men sat and sang 

 together. The form of quiver cover was similar to that used 

 by Nos. I — 5. 



Men's head fillets ... ... Chinkoi. 



Bark cloth of men's fillets ... Galuk. 



Creels or small bark baskets ... Raga. 



Small pouches for tobaccoo, etc. Tapok. 



Leaf bunches worn by women ... Benmong. 



Woman's ear ornaments ... Slebak. 



Woman's combs ... ... Sor^h. 



Nos. 32—35- 

 Living in a clearing, a couple of miles south of Slim near 

 the road, in two very substantial houses of bertam with bamboo 

 floors raised 5 ft. The only true Sakai objects in their 

 possession were blow pipes and quivers ; all their implements, 

 though made by themselves, were of Malay type. In threshing 

 padi, of which they possessed a quantity, they placed a heap of 

 ears in a mat and rubbed the grains out with the feet ; I saw 

 them spear water tortoises in the stream by means of a long 



