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APPENDIX VI. 
Ceremonial Prescribed at the Death of Chiefs. 
Two considerations lend importance to the ceremonies 
prescribed by custom at the funeral of a Rembau chief, (1) 
that under customary law any lapse from their detailed per- 
formance stamps a disgrace on that family in the particular 
tribe to which the deceased chief belonged, and would cancel 
the inherited right (pesaka) of that family to provide in its 
turn another chief. (2) that the nature of the ceremonial 
observed at his funeral affords evidence of the status of the 
deceased chief: the only valid evidence, it may be, being a 
record of actual fact, obtainable in the not infrequent event of 
minor headmen laying claim to a higher rank than that they 
admittedly occupy. 
1. Ceremonial prescribed at the obsequies of the Undang (or 
of his wife, should she predecease him). 
A. Within the house. 
1 Curtains (labzr) are hung on the wall. 
2 An awning (langit-langit) is stretched over the 
death-bed. 
3 The posts of the house are swathed in cloth. 
4 [night cloths of gold thread, folded in triangular shape 
are hung on the walls of the death room, and erste in 
the verandah of the bouse. 
A salute of seven guns simultaneously is fired seven times. 
B. In the court-yard. 
1. Four naked straight bladed kris (Aris panjgang) are 
displayed. 
2 Four naked swords are thrust into the ground. 
3 Four naked spears with tufts of hair (tombak bende- 
rang) are set up. 
4 Four umbrellas are opened. 
Two each of the flags known as 
Qo  tunggul, 
6 merual, 
