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MUSEUM NOTES. 
(ix) Taring mauah, a pair of pig’s tusks used for 
betabas, to rub on the patient in the evening to cure an 
ailment. 
In the evening before the pelian ceremony, the 
manang visits his patient and rubs the tusks (ix) on the 
affected part of the patient; this is betabas. Then he 
uses the batu ilau to ascertain the condition of the 
patient’s soul, after which he gives orders for the 
particular kind of pelian ceremony to be used and 
mentions the fee required, The pelian incantation goes 
on through the night and about 4 a.m. he enters the room 
to betubar the patient, that is, to rub the tusks (viii) on the 
ailing part in order to dispel all ailments. 
(x) A round pebble, Bain pencil clap also. 
(xi) Batu lia , ginger stone, a penchelap also to cure 
an ailment. 
(xii) A small stick used as a medicine for headache; 
first burnt, then the ash is rubbed on the head. A brass 
ring, tinchin bebangun. When the owner was made a 
manang the ring was given to him. 
(xiii) Engkrabun , the blinder, to effect blindness to 
the spirits in order that they will not be able to see the 
manangs. 
(xiv) Stoneware receptacle called Sidi for burning 
resin or damar. When the manang goes out from the 
room after seeing his patient damar is burnt thereon before 
the incantation to invoke his patron saints, etc., takes 
place. 
(xv) Batu labang manyi the stone of the beediive. 
It is a penchelap also. 
(xvi) Batu telu tichak, the stones of the lizard's eggs. 
They are penchelap also. 
(xvii; Two quartz crystals, Batu Ilau, the sight 
stones, w r ith which to ascertain the state of the soul of 
the patient. 
(xviii) (a) Jevangau, wind medicine, it has the 
essence of peppermint, {b) Medicine (use and character 
unascertained). ( c ) Lia belong, ginger used for blistering, 
first pounded then put on as a poultice. ( d) Jengkulai, 
a species of the lia betong used for sore throat, etc. 
(e) Kunyit or saffron used for itch, etc. (/) Kulit Lawang , 
