Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula (1906) (14594815899)

Identifier: paganracesofmala01skea (find matches)
Title: Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Skeat, Walter William, 1866- Blagden, Charles Otto, 1864-1949
Subjects: Ethnology -- Malay Peninsula Malays (Asian people) Malay Peninsula -- Social life and customs Malay Peninsula -- Religion Malay Peninsula -- Aboriginal dialects
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ng. It isabout I ft. (30 cm.) in diameter, and 2 ft. 6 in. (76 cm.)long. It is made of a tree-trunk hollowed out, andhas on one end a siamang skin head. Mr. Wraybought it for $2. Dress. On festal occasions the attire of the Sakai (forboth sexes) does not materially differ from thatof the Negritos. The same leaf-festoons, fillets, arm-lets, knee-bands of Licuala-leaf are worn as have beendescribed already, and the same bunches of fragrantleaves ■* and flowers are also worn wherever there is a Ilale, p. 296 ; cp. Z//. ii. 619. been only headed at one end (like that 2 De Morgan, viii. 281. But see also mentioned by Hale). See VH. ii. 619. De Morj^an, vii. 430, which conflicts -^ Sic. Prohalily in common time, with this. There can, however, be Hale, p. 296. little doubt that the account assigning * Usually the leaves are picked and this drum to the Sakai is the correct one. worn while green,—but dried leaves The drum n,-fcrred to appears to have are not excluded (De Morgan, vii. 414).
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SAKAI MEX PLAVINf; Xosk-Flutes.Near Kiuia Ko,- about six miles from Tapah, Batang Padang, Peral<. ll^ray. Pol. 11, p. 136.