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shorter and broader, have a dot in the centre of each. Leaf- 
monkey’s teeth (yus at) is the almost invariable pattern in 
panels 3 and 5, while panel 7 may have pisuas chinbeg (torn- 
open cabbage of the Bertam-palm!), gel talung (millipedes’ 
waists), and sudak taduk (spikes of the Bayas-plam ? ) or sudak 
manau (spikes of the Rotan Manau*), A study of combs 
collected in the Ulu Selama Parish and now in the Perak 
Museum—-ten specimens—gives the following results :— 
Nos. I, 2, 3. Typical eight-panel combs. 
Nos. 4, 5,6, 7. Typical six-panel combs. 
No. 8. Typical six-panel comb except that panel 2 has 
the pattern which is called ‘‘ cucumber seeds,’”’ while 
panel 6 has the ordinary ‘‘ padi grains.’”” These two 
divisions, therefore, do not ‘‘ balance’’ one another. 
No. ro. Aneight-panelcomb. Non-typical. Evidently 
the production of a prentice hand. Three panels 
blank, and patterns, which are merely rudely engraved, 
not of the usual type. 
A very noticeable feature of Negrito decorative art as 
applied to bamboo is that, whereas the Sakai merely scratches 
the skin of the bamboo to make patterns, afterwards colour- 
ing the scratches slightly with some brownish or blackish sub- 
stance, the Negrito, to obtain more outstanding effects, often 
removes parts of the light yellow skin of the bamboo and 
colours the underlying portions a rich brown. Some patterns 
produced in this way are to be found on nearly every bamboo 
article made by the Perak Negritos, and though many de- 
signs are merely made by scratching the skin of the bamboo, 
those in which the skin has been removed give Negrito bam- 
boo articles a very distinctive appearance. When this pro- 
cess is employed the yellow skin of the bamboo may either 
form a pattern which stands out against a dark brown back- 
ground, or may provide a light background which shows up a 
dark pattern. A good example of the former type of orna- 
mentation is the pattern called ‘‘ padi grains:”’ in this the 
yellow diamond-shaped grains are in strong contrast with the 
brown background. In the ‘‘ monkey teeth” pattern, on the 
other hand, the brown pattern (teeth) contrasts with a yellow 
background. 
An examination of Negrito combs from other parts of 
North Perak—the places from which we have examples are 
Ijok (Selama Sub-District) and Lenggong and Grik in Upper 
Perak—would seem to show that the rules stated above are 
more or less observed in these places also, for, though there are 
examples which do not conform to type, it is to be noticed 
| Eugeissona tristis. 2 Oncosperma horrida. 
* A kind of rattan palm. 
