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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.S7. ritoto (<., Sin^afioc.SAK.Xr 1)1- SoUllI Il.kAK, SlIinVINC. IAt K-1.\1.NT AND XOSE-QUILL. / ol. II. /. 39. SAKAI OF PERAK 39 latter, however, is not worn for ornamental purposes,but is intended, as in the case of the ear-hole, toenlarge the perforation of the cartilage.^ Ear-boring. Perak Sakai.—The women sometimes wear a porcu-pines quill passed through the perforation in the lobeof the ear. Wooden and other ear-studs or plugs andear-rings are, however, not uncommonly substituted.^ The foregoing account is corroborated by ColonelLow, in the passage quoted above, and Hale, whostates that they also wear the same things (i.e.porcupines quills, etc.) in their ears, and there appearsto be a tendency to enlarge the perforations, Mr.Hale observed two women wearing rolls of cloth aslarge as his little finger, and he found great difficulty inabstracting one of these rolls, which fitted very tightly.^ So, too, in a recent letter to me, Mr. L. Wrayobserves that ear-studs or plugs made

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