Everything about The Semang totally explained
The
Semang are a
Negrito ethnic group of the
Malay Peninsula. Lowland Semang tribes are also known as
Sakai. They are probably the
indigenous peoples of this area, and have been recorded to have lived here since before the
200s. They are ethnologically described as
nomadic
hunter-gatherers. Their color is a very dark brown or black. The shape of the head is round, or intermediate between round and long. The forehead is low and rounded, and projects over the root of the nose, which is short, depressed and pyramid-shaped. The eyes are often wide open and round, even at times showing no obliquity, the
iris being of a very rich, deep brown. Lips vary from moderate to full, the mouth is rather large, and the jaws are often slightly projecting.
The hair is very dark-brown black, never blue-black as among Chinese and Malays. It grows in short, spiral tufts, curling closely all over the head.
Culture
The Semangs live in caves or leaf-shelters formed between branches. A
waistcloth for the men, made of tree bark hammered out with a wooden mallet from the bark of the terap, a species of wild bread-fruit tree, and a short petticoat of the same for the women, is the only dress worn; many go naked.
Tattooing, or rather scarring, is practised, by drawing the finely serrated edge of a
sugarcane leaf across the skin and rubbing in charcoal powder.
They have bamboo musical instruments, a kind of
Jew's harp and a nose flute. On festive occasions there's song and dance, both sexes decorating themselves with leaves. The Semangs bury their dead simply, food and drink being placed in the grave.
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