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CHAP, jx SAKAI OF PERAK 471
For instance, I IB is represented in quiver Pi, Si,
and Xi ; but Vaughan- Stevens was not able to
obtain a pattern of 1 1 A. The significance of the
patterns with regard to the course of the disease is
the same as that of the blowpipes. In both sub-
divisions the same figures may occur, although they
are usually made smaller in I IB than in 1 1 A. The
chief difference does not lie in the form of the figures,
but in their general arrangement.^]
If these charm patterns, no matter of what class,
are not worn till after the Disease has got a foothold,
they do not help. In that case a decoction of the
materials denoted by the figures ' must be drunk by
the patient. This rule applies alike to the patterns
of combs, quivers, charm-tubes, and blowpipes.
II.
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Sakai.
We shall now consider the designs on some
musical instruments of the kind called " tuntong " (or, I
think, more correctly, " tuang-tuang "), this being the
only form of the decorative work of the Sakai that
appears to have been studied by Vaughan-Stevens.
' Z./iS". xxxi. 158. In fact, however, ID. 8-10, 16, 20, 25, 33,37,41,
there are in IIB quite different figures 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 52, 58, 60,
to those which are grouped under IIA, 63, 70, 72, 74, 75, 80, 99, 106, 108,
at least in the case of the blowpipe, 125.
and in Class IIB there is no sign IE. Ii, 15, 17, 19, 26, 29, 31,
of any special smallness of the 32, 39, 48, 55-57, 62, 66 A, 79, 81,
figures. 85, 120.
The 129 patterns of the blowpipes
are divided in the following way
IF. 12, 24,
65, 69, 89, 93.
38, 40, 43, 59, 64,
into the classes described :
IG. 73, 77, 88, 91, 95, 119.
lA. 5, 13, 28, 30, 35, 36, 51, 53, IIA. I, 3, 4, 6, 22, 107, 112,
54, 61, 66, 67, 71, 76, 78, 82, 83, 114, 115.
86, 87, 90, 92, 94, 100, 103, 104, IIB. 18, 21, 23, 44, 98, no,
III, 124, 126, 127. 122, 128.
IB. 2, 7, 27, 34, 68, 84, 96, 97,
- Naturally it is quite different in
loi, 102, 105, 109, 113, 1 1 6- 1 1 8. the case of the fatal disease of Class
IC. 14, 121, 123. IIA. Cf. Z.f.E. XXV. 81, 83.