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that of Tokeh, especially in the matter of the relationships 
between the males and the females. After a somewhat live- 
ly discussion with the ‘‘ chorus’’ he produced the following 
scheme of relationships. As discussion was necessary, it must 
be taken that the Negritos are not very certain about the 
matter themselves. The Kintak Bong ‘claim that, though 
the other tribes reverence these beings, they are their ances- 
tors. Here is the relationship scheme :— 
Tang-ong and Yak Manoid are husband and wife.’ Their 
children are Tapern and Jalang. Tak Tinjeg and Yak Lepeh 
are husband and wife. Their children are Bajiaig and Jamoi. 
Jamoi is the wife of Tapern. Jalang is the wife of Bajiaig. 
Tokeh’s account makes Jalang the wife of Tapern, and Jamoi 
the wife of Bajiaig, Bajiaig being Tapern’s younger brother, 
while Yak Lepeh isthe mother of Jalang, and Yak Manoid 
is the mother of Jamoi. Kukak is the father of Tapern, 
while his mother is Yak Takel. Possibly the truth is that 
both stories are correct, for Tokeh was a Menik Kaien, and 
may be following Menik Kaien tradition. ! 
According to the Kintak Bong there is also another Yak 
(grandmother). Her name is Yak Kalcheng: she is, I believe, 
the grandmother of Tapern,* and it was she who made the 
four boards in the heavens, over which the thunder-stone rolls 
at Tapern’s command. Yak Kalcheng was carried up to the 
because she was very old 
and could not walk.* Tang-ong, the father of Tapern, did 
not go to mete with the other ancestors, but remained below 
upon the e 
I five arate in my previous paper of the three grand- 
mothers who live under the earth. The Kintak Bong con- 
firmed what had been told me previously by Tokeh, but sub- 
stituted the name of Yak Kalcheng for that of Yak Takel. 
It is these grandmothers who make the waters rise from under 
the earth, causing Henweh, and Tanong (the dragonfly) carries 
the message from Tapern to Yak Manoid when people have 
committed some impious act and incurred this punishment. 
In this connection Mémpélam supplemented my information 
with regard to the blood-offering made by Negritos when a 
bad storm arises, stating that before the blood is thrown 
upward, as described in my former paper, a little is poured 
downwards to the earth for the benefit of the “‘ grandmothers, ’ 
the person who makes the offerings saying, “‘ Un Yak Kalcheng, 
Yak Manotd, tembun ajer nteng chuchok Chapor, Chalog CISIOE 
| Toke ~ (1921) confirms the —— of the younger generation of 
nese Bei ings (Tapern, Bajiag, ang and Dowty as given previously, 
but sa sper those of the elder F group are uncertain 
as 
int was not made 
3 This word —— be s it a above, and not Tahum, asin my former 
paper, q.v. ‘reation of the World.’ 
+ Could not atk presumably, up the ladder of blow-pipe darts which 
Tapern made 
