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1916.] I. H. N. Evans: Sakai of the Korbu River. 79
were made locally. Of the other two, one had been purchased
from a " Kampong Kelantan man " (on the Kelantan border ?),
t he other from a wandering abougine from some unknown district.
The weapons, however, presented some peculiarities worth
noting, as they were, roughly speaking, intermediate in type
between those used by the main branches of the Northern and
Central Sakai. All the blow-pipes had the Mat-ended mouthpiece
of the Central Sakai, but the inner tube in three out of
the four was a single internode of bamboo (Northern Sakai
type) ; in the remaining specimen, however, which was locally
made, it consisted of two internodes placed end to end and
fastened in the usual manner employed by the Central Sakai.
The only locally made quiver that I saw had a soft pandanus
cover of the type so common in the Batang District of Perak.
The quiver belonging to the " Kampong Kelantan " blow-pipe
had a hard cover of the Northern Sakai variety.
The two poisons used on the blow-pipe darts are Ipoh
and Broyal *, the latter which is obtained from a liana, is only
used for small gane, and is, the Sakai told me, much less
effective than Ipoh. Darts treated with Broyal are not
notched above the poison (so that the dart joint may break off
in the wound); those treated with Ipoh are.
Spears, with a bamboo blade and a wooden shaft, are
used in spring -traps, and a number of these were placed across
the rafters of the communal house at Bukit Daroh. With the
exception of the blow-pipe, iron-bladed spears of Malay manufacture,
krises, parangs, and daggers of the kind called tumbuk
lada and badck were the only weapons in use.
On questioning the Sakai, they said they had heard of the
bow, which is used by the Negritos and the hill-tribes of the
Piah and Temengoh Valleys, but had never seen a specimen.
A fair number of dogs are kept by the Kinta aborigines,
while generally speaking they are well treated aud a good deal
of affection shown to them.
Of the objects that I collected the most interesting were
the face-paint stamps, and wooden combs of various types,
some of which seem to be peculiar to the district, and are
almost exactly similar to those figured by De Morgan in his
" Negritos de la Presqu'ile Malaise."
Two holders used for fish-bait, consisting of open bamboo
receptacles, with a spike from their bases (this spike being for
securing the holder on the left side of the body by slipping it
into the girdle), are of a kind also figured by de Morgan with
the description " Boites a amorces de peche," and by Skeat
(Pagan Races, vol. 1, page 471) as " Bamboo vessels used by
Perak Sakai (Hale collection)." I also procured several
specimens of seed necklaces, carrying baskets, bark-cloth,
headbands (ornamented with patterns), akar batu girdles and
' The I'rual of Wray (Coptosapella flavescens) ' vide " Pagan Races " vol.
II, page 303.