1922.] I. H. N. Evans: Negrito Beliefs and Customs. 197 
The description of the position of the corpse in the grave, 
which I obtained in 1918, seems quite correct. Mémpélam 
told me that the head points to Belet, that is about north- 
west,’ with the face looking towards the setting sun. The 
body lies on its right side with the knees drawn up. 
No articles of iron must be placed on, or in, graves or a 
tiger will come and eat the bodies. Iron is credited with 
smelling musty * and thus attracting tigers. Brass pots, too, 
must not be put with the corpse for the same reason. Food 
is placed in the grave near the head of the dead person. 
The only correction that appears to be necessary in what 
I wrote in my previous paper under the present heading is 
that tangkel datim should be read instead of telak dateng and 
tangkel dawit for telak dawit. 
With regard to the three little wooden objects placed on 
graves, which I described as being like tip-cats, the Kintak 
Bong told me that these are tiger talisman’s (tangkel teiok), 
which keep these animals away from graves. 
Four small pieces of wood, which I also mentioned as 
being placed in the under side of the thatch of the site 
as warnings to the spirit not to return to its hom 
according to the Kintak Bong, called ¢angkel kemoit, "phase 
talismans. 
ae bullroarer, of ee I obtained a specimen at 
Lubok Tapah, is used as a toy by Kintak Bong children, 
but Mémpélam told me that is ie ghosts’ Jew’s-harp.*® 
The Shaman, 
I have set down a good deal of intormation about the 
shaman (halak) in my former paper, and I cannot add here 
m 
of the chants which are sung in the medicine-hut (panoh) 
by the principal performer, and repeated by those outside. 
{ have previously given the titles of a few of those. 
t Lubok Tapah, through the good offices of the head- 
man of the Kintak Bong, I induced a halak named Piseng,* 
to give a magical performance. The panoh was built by 
women one afternoon, and the séance took place the same 
night. Mémpélam, the headman, sat beside me the whole 
time and gave me the words of the songs as they were 
sung, and I immediately took them down to the best of my 
ability. With Mémpélam, Piseng and other Negritos, I 
afterwards corrected what I had written and obtained 
Malay translations from them of the different fragments. 
1 Vide foot-note to page 6 of my previous paper. 
2 oo hanyir. 
3 The oo the Malay—Jew’s-harp is made of bamboo or 
— ena "The alay name for the instrument is pr ggong. 
seers n Malay. 
