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the district, in conjunction with their rude stringed instruments and toy 
squirrels. It somewhat resembles a tuning-fork in principle, but is peculiar 
from the fact of its being furnished with stops, a very unusual feature m per¬ 
cussion instruments. An identical instrument is described by Dr. A. Sch an den- 
burg 1 from the Philippine Islands, under the name buncacan. It is therefore 
probable that this instrument occurs in other intermediate localities, to which, 
however, I have no references at present. 
* Should it prove to be a real Semang instrument and to be peculiar to 
the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines, it would be a most interesting link 
between the Semangs and the Negritos of these islands.’ 
‘At Bail Sai Kau, in Nawngchik, an implement, similar in form to this 
instrument, but six or seven feet in length, was seen in use as a pair of tongs 
in removing elephant dung from the space round which one of the hamlets 
was built/ 
42. Musical Clapper » Procured together with the last, to which it is 
similar. It is smaller (fifteen inches long) and narrower. This specimen 
sounds very well. 
B, Wind Instruments 
43. Transverse Flute , Semang (Semdn). Grit, Upper Perak (PJ. XX, 
Fig. 20). 
Of bamboo ; twenty-three inches long, three-quarters inch broad. The 
upper end is plugged up with wax. Sound-orifice lateral, one and a half 
inches from the end. There are three stops: six and three-quarters, two and 
seven-eighths, and one and a quarter inches from the lower end, which is 
closed by a node. It is blown transversely across the sound-orifice. 
‘On several occasions I heard the Semangs playing these flutes in the 
jungle, and noticed that the younger men generally had one stuck into their 
belts when travelling. In a dance they got up, at my request, at Grit, they 
did not play their flutes, but used them as clappers, beating them down 
vertically on the ground in time with their primitive zithers. The Sakais of 
the Batang Padang district. South Perak, use larger bamboos in a similar 
way upon recumbent tree-trunks. , 
44. Two Nose-flutes. Sakai (Mai Dardl ). Batang Padang district, 
South Perak. 
Of green bamboo ; fifteen and a half inches long, narrow. The upper 
end cuts through a node, which is perforated with a central hole, across which 
the breath is blown from the nostril somewhat diagonally. There are five 
1. Zeit.f. Ethn. XVIII, p. 550, 18S6. 
