narrow band of bast fibre. The upper part of the body is rarely covered, sometimes women cover the breasts with another narrow frontal stripe. Typical are tattoos, body painting. The noses are pierced with ornamented porcupine quills, bone, a piece of stick, bamboo sticks or some other decorative objects. Face and body tattoos usually have a magical meaning. Although the basis of Senoi diet is plant foods, they have a strong thirst for meat. When they say, "I haven't eaten in a few days," it usually means that the person has not eaten meat, fish, or poultry during that time. Traditional Orang Asli dances are usually used by the shaman as a rite of passage with spirits. Such dances include Gengulang by the Semai people, Gulang Gang by the Mah Meri people, Berjerom by the Jah Hut people, and Sewang by the Semai people and Temiar people. The only annual ceremony is the post-harvest festival, which is now synchronized with Chinese New Year. Special rites are associated with the birth of a child. A pregnant woman performs all her usual duties before childbirth. Childbirth takes place in a specially built hut under the supervision of midwives. Immediately after birth, the child receives a name. The dead are usually buried on the day of death on the other side of the river from where the people live. The grave is dug in the jungle, the body is placed with the head facing towards the west, tobacco, food and personal belongings of the deceased are buried with it. Although the dead are buried with some property, the Senoi people have no concept of the afterlife. Placentas and stillborn babies are buried in trees. Bodies of great shamans are left exposed by placing on a bamboo platform of their house, after which the rest of the villagers will move away from that location. Mourning lasts from one week to a month, during which there are taboos on music, dancing and entertainment. A bonfire is lit at the funeral site for several days. Six days after the burial, the ritual of "closing the grave" is performed and the burial place is "returned to the jungle." In the past, there was a practice among nomadic groups to move a settlement to a new location after the death of one of its inhabitants. That practice has now been abandoned. Lucid dreaming In the 1960s, the so-called