1920.] I. H. N. Evans: Cave-dwellings in Pahang. 5L 
With regard to the sites which I excavated in the State 
of Pahang, I have already remarked that the Kota Tongkat, 
Kota Rawa and other caves are still occasionally used by the 
Sakai-Jakun of the Tekam River, and some of the shelters 
at Gunong Sennyum may, perhaps, sometimes be visited by 
people of similar type. In both neighbourhoods, however, 
we are again not very far from regions frequented by 
Negritos. The nearest tribe, or part of a tribe, to Kota Tong- 
kat is, apparently, that which frequents the neighbourhood of 
Kuala Cheka ; but as I found two or three persons who ha 
I think, some admixture of Negrito blood, living among with 
aborigines on the Tekam River, I am inclined to believe that 
there may possibly be a Negrito tribe not many miles away. 
eems to me, then, possible that the relics in the caves, 
with the exception, perhaps, of those near, or on the surface 
of, the floors may have been left there by Negritos, though, if 
this is so, the cave-dwellers must in some matters have been 
ina more advanced state than any of the present aborigines, 
since they appear to have been capable of working and polish- 
ing stone, and even of making pottery. With this possibility 
in view it is, perhaps, worth while to see whether the habits 
and customs of the Mincopies of the Andaman Islands, who 
are of the same race, throw any light on the problem. Man 
in his papers on these people in The Journal of the Anthro- 
pological Institute states that Mincopies exhume the remains 
the dead, which, with the exception of the skulls, after 
being cleansed in water, are broken up and strung as neck- 
laces. The skulls of the dead are painted with koi-6b and 
worn by their relatives. Koi-6b, an iron oxide pigment 
mixed with grease, is also used for ornamenting the body. 
This is interesting in view of the ruddle-stained pieces of skull 
found in the a *To‘ Long, and of the pieces of paint which 
were found by Mr. L. Wray in the caves near Ipoh, and by 
myself in the sok. shelters at Lenggong, in the Gua ’To‘ Long 
and at Kota Tongk 
Other ee = interest mentioned by Man are the use 
of flakes of stone by the Mincopies and—in relation especially 
to human teeth from Lenggong, Gunong Cheroh, and Gunong 
Sennywm-—the state of these people’s teeth. To quote from 
his paper 
. The; general excellence of the teeth strikes one as 
remarkable, for not only are no precautions taken for their 
preservation, but they are used roughly, small bones being 
broken by them and food commonly eaten at almost boiling 
_ point. The grinding surface of the molars is generally much 
abraded : five or six tubercles are occasionally observed in 
the posterior molars, but are not all marked with equal 
distinctness ; in some cases, indeed, they are scarcely distin- 
guishable. The crowns of ‘these teeth frequently present one 
long and comparatively even surface, and the peculiarity is, 
