XL NOTES ON VARIOUS ABORIGINAL TRIBES 

 OF NEGRI SEMBILAN (Plates XXIX— XXX). 



By Ivor H, N. Evans, B.A., Assistant Curator and 

 Ethnographical Assistant F .M.S. Museums. 



These notes were made during a Museum expedition to 

 Negri Sembilan at the beginning of 1914. Aborigines were 

 found at the following places, Pertang in the State of Jelebu, 

 Bahau on the railway line to Pahang, and Kelapi, an aboriginal 

 village about two miles from Kampong Inas. The trip did 

 not yield any objects of great ethnographical interest, but this 

 was only to be expected, since none of these people are now 

 distinguishable in dress and belongings from the local 

 Malays. From only one of the tribes visited w'as a vocabulary 

 other than Malay obtained, namely, from a few Serting River 

 aborigines seen at Bahau, whose speech was essentially 

 similar to that of the mixed peoples of S. Pahang. The 

 most interesting result of the expedition was some information 

 with regard to certain beliefs about the shamanistic practices of 

 the Serting tribe, and a little information concerning the 

 appeasing of the evil spirits of the jungle, got both from the 

 Serting and the Pertang groups. 



THE JAKUNS* OF TITI RAMEI, 

 PERTANG (PI. XXIX). 



Thanks to the kindness of Mr. T. R. Hubback, of Pertang 

 the writer was enabled to spend a few days in this locality, and 

 to get into touch with sections of two tribes of aborigines. 

 One of these small parties had a couple of huts in a clearing 

 close to the place where the Pertang River crosses the Ayer 

 Baning bridle path, the spot where their houses were situated 

 being called Titi Ramei (Populous bridge). Two visits were 

 paid to these people, and in addition some of them came up 

 twice to Mr. Hubback's bungalow. They are a Malay 

 speaking tribe, but they seem to use a few non-Malayan words, 

 and their speech is rather a rude dialect. To the Malays they 

 are known as Sakai (a term applied to most aboriginal tribes) 

 Berenyup or Renyup, the latter apparentl)'' because of their 

 constantly using the expression " nyup," (there is not, tid'ada), 

 but the name they apply to themselves, is Orang Lepan (men 

 of the plains). Their houses resemble those of the poorer 

 class of Malay peasants, as do also their household utensils 

 and their clothes. At the time of our visit a number of the 

 people were away in the jungle at some durian groves, there 



* For the sake of convenience throughout these papers the aborigines are 

 referred to as Jakuns, for though there may be some small admixture of Sakai 

 blood in them, and one tribe speaks a Sakai dialect, their physical characteris- 

 tics are those of Proto-Malays, 



