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about the size of a Company's rupee, made by Malays,
and similar to those worn by Javanese females.
Silver rings are also worn. They bind the hair in
the same way as the Johor Benua.'
The " little girls " have their ears pierced by
their parents for the reception of earrings ; in the
absence of earrings, these holes are filled with small
rolled-up strips of banana-leaf or a large stud of
wood.-
They also wear large Malay waist-buckles (of the
kind called " pinding") and Malay bracelets.^
The children wear necklaces consisting of strings
of monkeys' bones, teeth of bears or tigers, coins, and
shells ; these
necklaces, however, are not worn for
mere ornament, but as a talisman against disease.^
The only other point that calls for remark with
regard to the dress of the Mantra, lies in the close
resemblance between the form of girdle worn by the
Sakai women in the neighbourhood of G. Bujang
Malaka (which consisted of a row of small grass-
bundles fastened to a cord which went round the
waist), and that observed in 1869, by Marche, among
the Mantra women north of Malacca.'
Benua - Jakun of Johop. — According to Logan,
the original dress of the males, to which a few
individuals whom he met were still restricted, was the
" chawat "—a narrow strip of cloth passing between
the legs and fastened round the waist. With these
exceptions all were provided with the Malay short
trousers ("seluar"), jacket (" baju "), plaid skirt, or
wrapper (" sarong "), and headkerchief (" saputangan "),
or some of them, but often in so ragged a condition as
' Logan in_/. /. A. vol. i. pp. 252, 253. - Borie (tr. Bourien), pp. 75, 76.
' Id. < /d.
'" De
la Croix, p. 330.