File:Kulipeh or Malay cartridge box from Central Sumatra.jpg

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From Midden-Sumatra. Reizen en onderzoekingen der Sumatra-expeditie, uitgerust door het Aardrijkskundig genootschap, 1877-1879, beschreven door de leden der expeditie, onder toezicht van Prof. P.J. Veth Volume 3.1.1:
The cargo is secured in a cartridge bag, Koelipéh (PI. XXVIII fig. 8), consisting of two trays carried in front of the body, covered with scarlet, each provided with five b a m b o e tubes, each containing a cartridge. The herb for the cargo, like the much coarser for the pan, is of own manufacture, and is not only in the estimate of the Imaaleiers, but also very much behind the European bushwort. Nevertheless, it is still manufactured, but not to the extent that it used to be when this industry flourished in the villages on Lake Manindjau. In the independent countries, the smooth-bore perkussion rifles with copper fittings imported from Singapore are the most widely used, and only there, especially in Lime, did I see some artillery in the dwelling of D atuwq-Pajoeeng-Putia, and quite a few lilacs and two small copper pieces on paddlewings, all from Singapore. Only a few heads have revolver pistols which they have purchased from European officials, and for which, as well as for the few rear-loading guns, the ammunition is usually lacking. Much more variety than in the firearms we notice in the white weapons, and the Malay in handling them also lays a much greater skill to the da. All these white weapons are of native workmanship and are distinguished by virtue of workmanship. The shape of the blade mainly determines its value, although the preciousness of many weapons is also partly due to the neatly carved and precious stone embossed handle and the gold-mounted scabbard made of rare woods. Sometimes a weapon derives its high value only from the fact that it is p o e s a k ó, heirloom; then it often has all the appearance of that kind to be seen in old rust in a merchant, but the Malay nevertheless ascribes to it extraordinary powers and reckons the use of an infallible remedy for every defeat. Such pusakós are also the kabasarans, dignity tokens of the lia-djós, of which on PI. XXVIII fig. 3 and 4 and on PI. XXXI are only shown.

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