Identifier: paganracesofmala01skea (find matches)
Title: Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Skeat, Walter William, 1866- Blagden, Charles Otto, 1864-1949
Subjects: Ethnology -- Malay Peninsula Malays (Asian people) Malay Peninsula -- Social life and customs Malay Peninsula -- Religion Malay Peninsula -- Aboriginal dialects
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SAKAI MEX PLAVINf; Xosk-Flutes.Near Kiuia Ko,- about six miles from Tapah, Batang Padang, Peral<. ll^ray. Pol. 11, p. 136.
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SAKA! OF PERAK 137 chance of fixing them. The only important differ-ences appear to consist in the different type of head-dress, and (frequently) of girdle, worn by the Sakai.Of the head-dress Hale says that on the occasion ofspecial festivities, e.g., at their dances, the PerakSakai wear a sort of high turban made of bark-cloth,or a wreath of sweet-smelling grasses or leaves/ The Dance. Hale, in describing a Sakai dance which hewitnessed in Ulu Kinta, says, that after about fiveminutes beating of the drum one or two men got upand commenced a dance, the principle of which wasa sort of curtsey made to every beat of the drum ;and that, at the same time, grotesque gestures weremade with the hands. After about half an hoursdancing the men sat down to rest and commencedchanting one of their songs, which consisted of amere repetition of the names of a number of moun-tains, rivers, etc., all of which were in the Kintawatershed (the Sakai country ) between 4° 30 and 5°N. lat. One of the pla

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