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CHAP. IX NEGRITOS OF PERAK 433
by an imaginary line of juncture between the teeth and
the solid part of the comb. The lowest of the ring-
lines comes above the eighth panel. ^]
The Central Panel {" Tin-weg'').
[The patterns for the various Diseases primarily
when different
represent the affected part of the body ;
parts of the body are affected the patterns are com-
bined, but the exact rules which determine the
method of composition are forgotten. Only this is
certain, that in cases where the "was" or " pawer "
flowers (in the case of any particular Disease) are of
especial value for healing purposes, only repetitions
of the same pattern appear on the comb, and no
others. If the central panel shows a pattern which
covers the entire panel from left to right, it is
called "makeii" (" makiee ")— see, for example, 9B.
If, however, panel five is covered with a row of
repeated figures (as in 19B), each separate figure
or emblem is called "sumpid."- If the fifth panel is
covered with an unrepeated pattern which entirely
covers the solid part of the comb, it is called " ne-
ning"^—see, for example, 68. Any special sign in
one of the central panels, or the " sumpid," etc., is
called " ob." The figures delineated in the plate are
the accepted emblems representing various parts of
the human anatomy, which appear in the patterns ot
the central panel. *]
» Z.f.E. XXV. 82. It is, hence, of Vaughan- Stevens, = Mai. "sumpil,"
clear that the diagram given to illus- or " sumpitan," a blowpipe,
trate these remarks on p. 78 of the ^ In the original spelt "neningk."
Zeitschrijt is incorrectly drawn, and an impossible spelling in Semang. All
that the double line below the eighth these terms lack corroboration,
panel should be deleted. * Z. J. L. xxv. S3.
- Sic, guare " sumpit," a confusion
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