ABSTRACT
The ordinary Malay chopping-knife, of one type or another, of which every Negrito must have one to use in the jungle, is used for cutting up meat, when it can be obtained, as well as for other culinary and household purposes. As Negrito habitations are of the simplest, it would appear likely, as is the case that the household utensils would be of a similar nature. In reality the Negrito is by nature a hunter, root digger and fruit gatherer and, though he practises agriculture to some extent in various parts of the country, he retains his more primitive methods of food-getting, which, indeed, afford his main source of supply. Skeat says that friction is the simplest method of fire-making practised by both eastern and western Negritos. Skeat states, of the Negritos in general, that cooking is the duty of women.
