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
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of his wife, he might kill her and herparamour without any fear of the result, further thanthe possibility of their relatives avenging the deed.^ To this we may add the fuller account given byDe Morgan, who tells us that the husband acquiredabsolute power over his wife, and would not shrinkfrom beating her if the provocation were great 1 Ethnol. Notizblait, i. 4-6. ^ngia, as these latter would not only be - Z.f. E. xxvi. 154. Mr. II. N. rather brown than black, but would beef Kidley (of Singapore) suggests that these a uniform colour. ^ Notizblatt, i. 4-6. alleged fern-spores (as represented in the ■* Cp. Vaughan-Stevens in Z. f. E. face-paint of the Sakai) are more prob- xxviii. 174, where we are told that ably copied from the black and white the age among the Sakai was fourteen fruit-seeds which are found in the Sakai for the girl and from fifteen to sixteen necklaces and armlets. They are prob- for the man. ably not meant for fern-seeds or spor- ^ J. I. A. vol. iv. pp. 430, 431.
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Cemi/i.New LY-MAKKIED COUPLE, WOMAN WITH PAINTED HeAD-BAND AND NosE-QuiLL, Ulu Itam, Fekak. Vol. 11. /. 64.

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