Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

622 APPENDIX
io6. " Hak-kar " (" hukkar "). Incomplete, p. 155.
107. "Kenabil." Complete, p. 155.
loS. " Kaltu " (" kaltoo "). Complete, p. 155.
109. " Pig-pau "' (" pig pow "). Complete, p. 156.
1 10. "Tig-ja." Complete, p. 156.
111. "Puk-pug" ("pook poog"). Incomplete, p. 156.
112. "Ong." Sideways complete, p. 156.
113. "Yap," or " yop " ? ("carp"). Complete, except for the middle part,
P- 156.
114. " Gihar" ? (" ge har "). Complete up to space 2. P. 156.
115. "Wor," or " wa " ("wor"). Complete, p. 156.
116. " Ham-ming" ("hum meeng"). Complete, p. 156.
117. "Senaitepis" (" seni tepees"). Complete, p. 156.
118. " Pap-lif." Complete, p. 156.
119. " Las," or " les" ? (" las"). Incomplete, p. 156.
120. " Nes-os" ("ness os"). Complete, p. 156.
121. " Ta-sai" (" tassai "). Complete, p. 156.
122 " Ni-chip-pip" (" nee-chip peep"). Complete, p. 156.
123. " Chu-hut " (" choo hoot "). Sideways complete, p. 156.
124. " Piches " (" pichess "). Incomplete, p. 156.
125. " Betungking" (" betoonking "). Complete, p. 156.
126. "lyor"? ("eeor"). Charm against disease of the ear. Complete,
P- 156.
127. "Tet-per" ("tet-pur"). Charm against disease of the nose (cf. No.
126). Complete, p. 156.
128. " Ing-heng"? (" ing hang"). Sideways complete, p. 156.
\N.B.—In Globus Ixxv., Nos. 22, 23, and also in Z. f. E. xxxi. etc., will be
found papers commenting on the foregoing lists of patterns, but as to a great
extent they are written under the influence of the untenable flower-theory, their
most valuable part consists in their frank criticism of the weak spots in that
theory itself. Another point is that the classification of the patterns is greatly
over-elaborated, and that the essential irregularity of the patterns themselves is
frequently disregarded. The first and most important task is to find out the
meaning of the Semang names, and it is to this alone that we may look to get
results of permanent value.—W.S.]
Critical Summary of Paper by Dr. Preuss in Z.f.E. xxxi. 180.
This paper of Dr. Preuss commences with a discussion of the emblems said
by Vaughan-Stevens to be employed for representing various parts of the body,
as to which we have to remark that very few indeed of them appear to be
actually used in patterns from the names of which the seat of the disease can be
localised, and further that, as is indeed quite rightly pointed out by Dr. Preuss
himself, many of these special emblems do not occur in any form in any of the
patterns at all ; and that, in addition to these difficulties, many of the variations
in the patterns are absolutely and entirely without significance.
A glaring instance of an entirely unacceptable explanation given by \'.iughan-
Stevens is that the cross-lines of the " tin-weg " (comb pattern) represent forest-
paths, " probably because it is from these paths that a particular disease is spread
over the Peninsula"—a statement which, apart from its own grotesquely far-
fetched character, directly conflicts with Vaughan-Stevens' own explanation of
similar cross-lines in another place, viz. that they represent a "larger swelling"
or "hill." We are further asked by Vaughan-Stevens to believe (l) that many
flowers and other objects though bearing quite different names, are nevertheless,
as a rule, identical ; (2) that the very same (or quite similar) flowers are—also as
a rule—not identical. Whence it follows, as the result of (i), and (2) that special
signs or marks had to be introduced to distinguish the latter.