Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula . ave preceded it. Vaughan - Stevensdescribes it, somewhat vaguely and from traditiononly, as a species of red earth, but in his Cave-dwellersof Perak Wray refers to the apparent use of hematitein this way, and there can I think be very little doubtthat this conjecture is correct, and that a species ofred ochre, obtained from some of the numerous formsof iron-ore so widely distributed in the Peninsula,originally formed the red pigment of the does in fact to this day form a very popular ^ De Morgan, viii. 211 ; Swett. p. charcoal, a vegetable re
Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula . ave preceded it. Vaughan - Stevensdescribes it, somewhat vaguely and from traditiononly, as a species of red earth, but in his Cave-dwellersof Perak Wray refers to the apparent use of hematitein this way, and there can I think be very little doubtthat this conjecture is correct, and that a species ofred ochre, obtained from some of the numerous formsof iron-ore so widely distributed in the Peninsula,originally formed the red pigment of the does in fact to this day form a very popular ^ De Morgan, viii. 211 ; Swett. p. charcoal, a vegetable red, and white 228 ; Hale, p. 243. china clay. These are mixed with oil, 2 De Morgan, viii. 225. and the faces and sometimes the breasts ^ Cp. Wrays Cave-dwellers, p. 43, of women, and occasionally the men, for an almost identical statement : are painted with patterns with lines and The three colours used by the modern dots. This is only done on occasions .Sakai for painting their persons are when they wish to add to their charms. acS. 4 ?rf
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