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other personal ornaments and mothers still say to their girl 
children when they are inclined to consider themselves good- 
looking, and be conceited in consequence, ‘‘ You need not 
think that you are as beautiful as Yak Tanggoi.’’ 
I have found absolutely no evidence that engraved 
combs are regarded as talismans by the Negritos of Perak, 
though the patterns on the dart-quivers are thought to make 
the game tame, so that it may easily be shot by the hunters 
with their blow-pipes. Tdkeh told me, in 1921, that the 
Negritos decorated their quivers with such patterns as they 
dreamt would prevent game becoming frightened. 
Patterns in the Illustrations. 
(a) Torn-open cabbage of the Bertam-palm (pisuas 
chinbeg). 
(b) Padi grains (kebeurk padt). 
(c) Teeth of the lotong-monkey (yus ai). 
(d) Crossing shoots of the jackfruit (tenwug nangka). 
(e) Leaflets of the Salak-palm (tapag salag). 
(f} Thighs of the Monitor-lizard (bleuA patiu). 
(g) Millipedes’ waists (gel talung). 
(h) Cucumber flowers. 
(i) Bertam pattern. 
(i) Gourd seeds. 
(k) Birds’ wings. 
With regard to these patterns, it will be noted that there 
is a great similarity between piswas chinbeg (a) and the design 
which I have called ‘‘ Bertam pattern.” Pisuas chinbeg, 
according to my. informant, means ‘‘ torn-open cabbage of the 
Bertam-palm,”’ while the Malay name obtained for it was 
bunga bértam,® bunga meaning either “ flower’’ or ‘‘ pat- 
tern.’’* 
With reference to g, the name given—“ millipedes’ 
waists ’’ (gel talung)—is rather doubtful. 
The patterns f (bleuk patiu) in comb C and those (d) 
termed fenwug nangka in combs A and B, are almost identical, 
though in comb A there are four dots placed in the centre of 
the diamond formed by the crossing elements of the pattern. 
Names obtained in Malay only. 
! Obtained in 1921. 
? Yak Tanggoi means ‘‘ Grandmother Rambutan.” 
3 From a Negrito of Grik, from whom the comb was bought. 
+ Compare these two patterns with that which I have queried. 
