{"id":"SEA-005","label":"Kintak Bong bĕtaling, the tiger’s call","people_or_site":"Kintak Bong / Semang Negrito","country_current":"Malaysia","historic_region":"Perak / Ulu Selama / Lubok Tapah","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Malay Peninsula","local_name":"bĕtaling","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Specimen obtained by Evans at Lubok Tapah","function_summary":"Forbidden in the jungle, where its sound offended the thunder god Kaei and drew a tiger. Otherwise a children’s toy, also called the ghosts’ Jew’s-harp.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"EVANS1923_KINTAK_BONG_LUBOK_TAPAH_BULLROARER","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/studiesinreligio00evanuoft","page_or_plate":"Evans1923 p.177; Evans1937 pp.120,180,267; Schebesta1926 pp.225,227,232–233","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Kampung Tapah/Sungai Bayor/Ulu Selama regional anchor for Evans's Lubok Tapah in Ulu Selama; not an exact 1921 camp coordinate","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The bĕtaling was a children’s toy with a dangerous place to play. Sound it in the forest, the Kintak Bong said, and a tiger might come looking for the companion it thought it heard. At Lubok Tapah, headman Mempelam gave Ivor Evans another identity for the sound: the ghosts’ Jew’s-harp. The living Jew’s-harp, called genggong by Malays, was cut from bamboo or palm wood. Sounding the bĕtaling in the forest offended Kaei, the thunder god; beside Kaei lay Tanogn, a dragon or snake who roared thunder whenever an offence was committed.","pull_quote":"The bull-roarer, of which I obtained a specimen at Lubok Tapah, is used as a toy by Kintak Bong children, but Mempelam told me that it is the ghosts' Jew's-harp.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Evans 1923:177","term_gloss":"bĕtaling: the Kintak Bong bullroarer name given to Evans in 1935; he compared Malay bĕrbaling.","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","snake","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"sources":[{"citation":"I. H. N. Evans, Studies in Religion, Folk-Lore, and Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula (1923), p. 177","url":"https://archive.org/details/studiesinreligio00evanuoft"},{"citation":"I. H. N. Evans, The Negritos of Malaya (1937), pp. 120, 180, 267","url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218103"},{"citation":"Paul Schebesta, “Religiöse Anschauungen der Semang über die Orang hidop (die Unsterblichen),” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 24 (1926), pp. 225, 227, 232–233","url":"https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.01.7856869"}],"source_citations":"I. H. N. Evans, Studies in Religion, Folk-Lore, and Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula (1923), p. 177; I. H. N. Evans, The Negritos of Malaya (1937), pp. 120, 180, 267; Paul Schebesta, “Religiöse Anschauungen der Semang über die Orang hidop (die Unsterblichen),” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 24 (1926), pp. 225, 227, 232–233","source_display":"I. H. N. Evans, Studies in Religion, Folk-Lore, and Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula (1923), p. 177; I. H. N. Evans, The Negritos of Malaya (1937), pp. 120, 180, 267; Paul Schebesta, “Religiöse Anschauungen der Semang über die Orang hidop (die Unsterblichen),” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 24 (1926), pp. 225, 227, 232–233","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Specimen obtained by Evans at Lubok Tapah","function_display":"Forbidden in the jungle, where its sound offended the thunder god Kaei and drew a tiger. Otherwise a children’s toy, also called the ghosts’ Jew’s-harp.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kintak bong","display_name":"Kintak Bong bĕtaling, the tiger’s call","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SEA-005_schebesta1954-001-evans1922-jfmsm9-plxvi.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEA-005_schebesta1954-001-evans1922-jfmsm9-plxvi_thumb.jpg","alt":"Evans’s 1922 plate photograph of a Kintak Bong toy bullroarer, a long slender wooden slat with a loose looped cord (Plate XVI, figure 10).","credit":"I. H. N. Evans, 'Negrito Beliefs and Customs', Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 9 (1922), Pl. XVI, fig. 10 — via archive.org","license":"Public domain (published 1922)","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003189682/page/n250/mode/1up","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Evans's 1922 drawing of a Kintak Bong toy bullroarer (Pl. XVI, fig. 10)."},"slug":"sea-005-kintak-bong-semang-negrito"}