Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

450 DECORATIVE ART part ii
which see Bamboo 3, but why this figure was left unfinished
is unknown.
The second panel is called " kenachol " (" ken-
nachole "), this name denoting, however, the panel
itself and not the figures inscribed upon it. The
figures in each panel will be taken from right to
left, beginning with Fig. 2. This figure and those
following represent objects which hang above the
judgment throne of the Thunder-god Kari ("Kiee" =
" Kayi ").^ The Semang call this figure (No. 2)
" penjok taduk." The first word means loin-cloth,
and the second " pendant flower decorations."
It is difficult to explain exactly what is meant by
the expression, unless it may either be taken to
signify loin-cloth and flower-pendants (the con-
junction being omitted, as is so frequently the case in
these dialects), or unless the " taduk " may be some
unknown or fabulous material, in accordance with the
explanation given to Vaughan-Stevens.'- Kari alone
(according to the Semang) makes use of this material,
which, like everything else he possesses, is prepared
by the Chin-oi (" Chinnoi "), a race of people who
never die.
The object represented by Fig. 3 is called by the
Pangan " kenaij " (" kenigh " ?), a term which is of
uncertain meaning. In the case of the women's
combs, it denotes the representation of the Disease
against which the charm pattern is devised, but it
was also applied to anything bright and glittering,
e.g. a sunrise or sunset, lamps, rings, and even
provision tins! It does not seem to mean " light-
^ This god, who is himself portrayed play a large part in the traditionary
by Fig. 7, is the chief deity or Thunder- accounts of Malay regalia, and this
god of the E. Semang or Pangan. may be the case with the Semang too ;
2 Fabulous objects and materials V. -St. iii. \o(>;v. pp.455, 511, infra.