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“O father, do not forget hair ornaments for the Chinoi, 
shoots of the indigo-plant.’’ A male Chinoi is speaking. 
Kalun yek, babeh, penangkan 
Waist-cord I, married woman, shoulder-cloth 
gthmal. 
weapons. 
‘*T, a married woman, wear a waist-cord, shoulder-cloth and 
weapons.’’ A female Chinoi is speaking 
Ibeh jenoring galun. 
Turn(?) enter rattan loop. 
“Turn and enter the rattan loop.’’ Galun, I was told 
means rattan, but the ordinary Negrito word for this is awzh. 
Probably the truth is that galun is equivalent to the Malay 
word gélong, a rattan loop. Reading galun as equivalent 
to gélong makes good sense, as it is a rattan skipping- rope! 
to which reference is here made. 
O1 minyun, yam — bulang menulang 
I(?), shaking I wreathe head-dress 
up and down, 
bacham. 
ferns. 
‘*T, shaking the bridge up and down, I wreathe my head 
with a head-dress offerns.’’ It is the Chinoi Sagar, a female, 
who is speaking. She lives, as I have related above, at the 
far end of the Balan Bacham. She says that while making 
the bridge of the dead, the Balan Bacham, spring up and 
down, she wreathes her head with the Bacham-plants which 
grow near it 
Yek, yek ensol, yek tenbon sigalak®  galong.* 
i I ashamed, —_ every cross-beam. 
1 The Ne cotton seem to te fond of at ae igs ee persons turning 
the rope, and one jumping, and I saw them thus amusing themselves on 
ipping is n ore amon Malay school-children, 
sions. Skipping is now 
but those Malays that I have consulted, so far, consider that it is a recen ly 
ce ak : : : 
introd : Ww hether it is native to the Negritos, but 
they are of course in close contact with the Malays and would copy anything 
which pleased a Re yap to skipping in chants connected with 
religion looks, however, rather as if the pastime was native. 
Tokeh (1921) eave that there is a nibeh manau.a skipping-rope of rotan 
ssaahereg eager the my Bacham. 
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all, every. 
npc sae, a poms. a roller. 
