1920.] I, H. N. Evans: Negrito Beltefs. 13 
hand! wall of the excavation. It lies on its right side with 
the legs drawn up. ‘The orientation of the grave is such that 
the head of the corpse points towards the north-west. A 
woman’s grave is dug to a depth of her height from her feet 
to her breasts ; that of a man toa depth of his measurement 
from feet to eyebrows. Burial offerings (f&nitok)* of food 
and tobacco are placed in the grave in front of the corpse’s 
throat, and, if the body is that of a man, two little wooden 
objects (telak),* decorated with patterns rudely drawn with 
charcoal, are planted against the body; one of these, the 
smaller of the two, the ¢elak dawitt, or left-hand telak, is, I 
understand, always placed at the left of the body near the 
shoulder ; the other, the larger, which is called telak dateng, 
or right-hand telak, on the right of the body, and near that 
part of it in which the disease from which the man died made 
itself manifest. I was also told that three little pieces of 
wood,’ striped with yellow and red, are sometimes set on the 
top of the grave, one at the head, one at the foot, and one in 
the middle. These, of which I obtained models, are shaped 
very much like the tip-cats with which English schoolboys 
sometimes play a game 
A shelter is, it appears, built over a grave and into the 
thatch of this are pushed four pieces of white wood each 
about a foot long, by seven-eighths of an inch broad and an 
eighth of an inch in depth.” They are roughly decorated 
with charcoal, one side being marked with horizontal bars 
and the other with rude cross-hatching: two of them are 
placed at one end of the shelter, and two at the other. Their 
purpose is to prevent the return of the souls of the dead to 
their homes, though Tokeh told me that they were powerless 
to restrain those of the wicked. Presumably, therefore, they 
act as notices to the ghosts of the good, telling them that 
they must not visit their surviving relatives. 
When burying a corpse, the Kintak Bong and Menik 
Kaien say :— 
Chub-deh® kasing : 
Go first : 
Do not give rain 
Yinket eg belt (Mal. rebut) ; 
Do not give storms; 
1 When the spectator is facing the foot of the grave. 
2 Cf. the pénitak of Vaughan Stevens (Pagan Races, vol. II, pp. 
as 8 FV obtalaad eae of these from Tokeh 
4 Equivalent t erhore _igeeeezonee (batu nisan). 
5 I obtain 
6 The Malay equivalent of chub-deh was given as perge-lah. 
1 Ujan is a Malay word. 
