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made from lour small pieces oi board intersecting at right- 

 angles so as to enclo ■ a square, and having then ends 

 projecting ;. two types of head-dress {chunghiie bulang and 

 chengkul lepang) made of haves; two Halak's switches, one 

 mad'-' of lebak-lezves (s'lak selebok), the other of leaves of the 

 he-it. mi s'lak bertop) : and hands of tree-bark {tempok luat) with 

 rough patterns drawn on them in yellow or black. 



The Halak's balai (a circular frame of rattans with a thick 

 fringe of finely shredded leaves depending from it), within 

 which he chants his spells, was also hung from one of the 

 beams of the " medicine "-house. This balai was in all essen- 

 tials similar to that which I have already described and figured 

 in a former paper on the Sakai of the Ulu Sungkai. 1 



Katil told me that among his people the Halaks perform- 

 ed by torch-light, while the Slim Valley Senoi held their per- 

 formances in total darkness. - 



He also said that the seances, which had taken place 

 before our arrival, had been kept up for six consecutive nights, 

 and that ceremonial bathing from the decorated water-bamboos 

 (kenas) took place after the performances were finished, and 

 shortly before daylight. 



With regard to Sakai beliefs that Halaks become tigers, 

 Katil told me that a Halak's ghost rose, usually on the four- 

 teenth day after burial, and assumed that shape. 



Burial and Existence after Dkath. 



While living with the Senoi I had an opportunity of 

 inspecting several graves, which were situated in the jungle 

 at a little distance from the settlement, and at the base of a 

 hill. None of these, winch were close together, were very 

 recent — the newest was, I believe, at least a couple of years 

 old, probably more. Their sites were marked by narrow 

 mounds, about as long as the bodies of those buried below. 

 In two cases these mounds had undressed upright stones 

 set up at the head and foot of thenu, one being covered, 

 in addition, with water-worn stones from the river. Another 

 grave had small Sungkai-irees planted round it, while in a 

 fourth the mound had partly fallen into the burial-chamber 

 below. Katil told me that slight huts of the lean-to type are 

 erected over new graves, and that articles, such as adzes and 

 blow-pipes, which must be either bent or broken, are placed 

 within the hut. No remains of huts or offerings were, how- 

 ever, to be seen on the graves that he showed me, and he 

 explained that they had rotted away. 



i "Journal of the F.M.S. Museums,'" vol VI, p. 98 & pi xxviii 



= I have noted in the paper referred to above that the Sungkai people cov- 

 ered up a lamp that I took with me into th, hut in which th 

 to perform 



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