Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

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(Senoi), the Besisi, and the Mantra. To these the
Blandas of southern Selangor should, I think, be
added. In its rarest form, that of the jointless tube,
this blowpipe is only found within a yet more
restricted area, i.e. in parts of Perak,^ and (according
to one writer) in the Nenggiri- district of Kelantan.
Outside the geographical area covered by these tribes
we find, as a rule, rougher and less-finished specimens
of this weapon. The Semang of the north, for in-
stance, and, as far as I am aware, the Semang alone,
make use of a roughly made blowpipe which bears
very little decoration, but which not unfrequently has
a mouthpiece of native gutta or resin.
The most interesting type, the wooden split-tubed
blowpipe, which is identical with one used in Peru, is
said to be " only used south of the Pahang river in the
state of that name."^ Yet the specimen now in the
British Museum came from Kuantan, which is a good
way north of the Pahang river. Vaughan-Stevens is,
however, probably right in stating that the tree from
which this wooden blowpipe is made {Calophylluni, sp.,
called in Malay " Penaga") is used because it is proof
against warping, but that it is only of local distribution.
Quiver and Darts.
What is true of the blowpipe in general, is true
of the quiver and the darts. Thus the quiver of the
' Mfssrs. R. H. Yapp and Laidlaw between the old and new worlds consist
(who were with me in 1S99-1900) in stone and bronze implements, round
found the bamboo from which these towers, pyramids, coins, methods of
blowpipes are made on Mt. Inas, on the embalming and skull
• deformation,
north I'erak frontier, and obtained circumcision, early carvings of elesingle-jointcd
blowj^ipes in the same phants found in Central America,
district. Mr. \ app tells me that this and prehistoric tobacco - pipes found
l)amboo closely resembles the blowpipe- in Ireland. —Wray in Per. Mus. Notes,
reed of S. America {Annitiinaria vol. iii.
Sc/ioHtduri^kii, Benth., I^amhuscie). '^
I'. B. G. .4. xxiii. 8j4.
Other proofs of prehistoric intercourse ' Vaughan-Stevens, /.f.
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