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the ends, are made of guttapercha instead of wood. All the 

 dart-quivers that I saw were of the hard round-topped variety, 

 which is found in the south of the Batang Padang district of 

 Perak. One article of some interest that I purchased was a 

 bamboo comb — an old specimen — which was decorated with 

 very minute and finely-executed scratched-in patterns. The 

 only other objects worth recording that I managed to buy were 

 some ceremonial articles used by Hulaks (Shamans). These 

 I treat of below. 



Beliefs and Customs connected with Agriculture 



The Behrang Senoi have a number of customs conni i ted 

 with agriculture, and I suspect that I have not by any means 

 obtained all of them. 



In clearing jungle for planting rice the brushwood is cut 

 away before the large trees are felled. The Sakai. when begin- 

 ning to make a new clearing, work for three days at cutting 

 down the undergrowth, and then rest for a day. This is called 

 pahantak kernor; that is the cutting-of-brush wood tabu {kef nor, 

 I am told, is equivalent to tebas in Malay)- When the under- 

 growth has been dispose 1 ol 

 trees and. after felling foi tin 

 rest for pahantak gani, or the 

 meaning as the Malay word / 



In sowing dry-growing 

 mencement is a rest-dav for 

 sowing tabu. 



At reaping, the rice-soul 

 consists of seven eai =. 



bahantak kenod bah, the tabu at the reaping of the rice. On 

 this day things must not be carried down from the house-, to 

 the ground, though anything may be taken up into them. II 

 an article were removed from a house, the rice-soul would 

 follow it and be lost. 



Customs and Beliefs with Regard to Storms. 



The Senoi of the Behrang Vallev. like most, if not 

 all, of the other wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula, are much 

 afraid of thunder and lightning, and it is thought that should 

 certain prohibited acts be done, without taking step-, to avoid 

 the consequences, the village of the offenders would be struck 

 by lightning and destroyed. In a former number of this 

 '•Journal" I have given a list of sane of the prohibitions 

 which are in force among the Sakai of the Ulu Sungkai, and 

 those that I was made acquainted with by Katil are some- 

 what similar. For instance, a monkey must not be dressed 

 up and laughed at : a cat and a dog must not be set to fight ; 

 jungle leeches, malau (a kind of gum), lice, bugs, jelotong-wood, 



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