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XXII. BELIEFS, ( [ STOMS, AND FOLK-TALES OF
THE BEHRANG-VALLEY SENOI.
l'.\ [vor II. X. Evans, Assistant Curator & Ethnogr,
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urns.
visiting
i\ in the present year (1917) I liad an opportunity ot
up of Sakai who were living near the
Behrang River, in Perak, about eight miles north of Tanjong
Malim, As they were a somewhat civilized community their
technology was not particularly interesting, since they had
given up making many of the articles worn, or used, by the
wilder tribes. I spent rather more than a fortnight in their
village, and found them friendly and willing to give information
with regard to their beliefs and customs. I'hey told me that
they maintained relations both with the Senoi (Sakai) of the
Slim Valley, whom they called Mai Slip, and with the tribe,
seemingly of mixed Sakai-Jakun origin, which lives near Kerling
in Sela'ngor, and speaks'Malay as its mother-tongue.
I re
the nearest neighbours of the Behrang Senoi, who
inhabit the neighbourhood of the Behrang and of the Bil
Rivers. The Kerlingp Mai Mel 11 ai (outside
people), or sometimes as Mai Renyup, from the fact that
they use a word "nyup" meaning "is not," in their dialect,
which is equivalent to the ordinary Malay phrase tiada.
1
.Marriages between Behrang Senoi and Mai Sup ot Mai
em to be not infrequent, one woman that I met having
been married t a Slim man (and divorced); and another
having come from the Kerling tribe. Divorce seems to be
fairl) common, and I was told that in this respect men and
women are on quality, a permanent
separation, with free lorn to marry, taking place at the wish of
either p irty. With the ex> irrn m
rare, and Kati lid that even
this war- n I, nor did it lead to blows among the par
: found another
ly take it away, and upbraid
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The di Behrang Senoi beh mgs to th<
1: numbei f Malay
rhesi irectly frcm the
local Mi tys, Sumatrans From various districts, who are, comparative!
n may have been introdm ed
through contact with Mai Meluar of
The h
those of Malays and present no special features of inter -1
Their blow-pip the Batang Padang type, with tin
i; hollowed at