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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skcat Collection.I-A\-SHAP1J) PaI.M-I.KAF l-iKATKRS. Used for striking the ends of long bamboos to cause a musical note. (Ulu Siong, Kedah.) Vol. II. /. 122.
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A. H. Yapp (Skeat Expeditio)i). Pangan Gkoui in Dancinc; Drk.ss, Kuai.a Sam, Ui.u Kki.antan. Vol. If. />. 123. NEGRITOS OF KEDAH which is by no means unmusical. In order to increasethe volume of sound the body of the instrument isgenerally held between the teeth of the performer, orelse over the hollow of the bamboo case in which it issometimes kept. The string by which the instrument is attached tothe handle is generally of twisted vegetable fibre, andthe handle itself the rib of a small monkey. In allother respects, however, it is very similar to the Jews-harp of the Peninsular Malays, The flutes used by the Semang of Kedah are oftwo kinds, the common bamboo mouth-flute and thenose-flute. Both are occasionally though rarely usedto accompany their songs. The common flute is usually about a foot long andis made of a segment of young bamboo. It usuallyhas three holes, apart from the mouth-hole, and isoften decorated with incised patterns. The nose-flute, which has a similar number o

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