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the occasion of feasts, indulge in much personal 
ornament. Necklets of the black strings of the 
above-mentioned fungus are common, and head- 
bands of tree-bark or fibre are to be seen. Flowers 
are frequently worn behind the ears. 
Apart from spears, the original Negrito weapon 
appears to have been the bow, which is also that 
of the Aetas and of the Andamanese. Nowadays, 
however, its use is almost entirely confined to the 
neighbouring half-Negrito tribes — to whom I shall 
have occasion to refer again — while the Negritos 
proper have taken to using the long bamboo blow- 
pipe and poisoned darts, the true weapon of the 
Sakai. 
Negrito religious ideas and folk-lore are well 
developed for such a primitive race. The gods are 
deified ancestors who now live in the heavens and 
under the earth, and punish offences by sending 
terrible thunderstorms accompanied by softening of 
the ground and the welling up of water from under 
the earth, involving the destruction of the trans- 
gressors’ encampment. Attempts to avert threaten- 
ing storms are made by blood-offerings, the Negritos 
making slight incisions on their legs near the 
shin-bones. 
The souls of the dead go to a western paradise 
of fruit-trees on the evening of the third day after 
death. The occurrence of a death necessitates the 
immediate desertion of an encampment. Shamanism 
is found — at any rate among certain groups-— and 
shamans are credited with the power of becoming 
were-tigers. Shamanistic seances are among certain 
of the western Negritos — the only sections from 
whom we have evidence — conducted in a small, 
specially constructed circular hut, built on the 
ground, and just big enough to contain the medium 
