Semangs is a 7 letter English word.
You can make 166 anagrams from letters in Semangs (aegmnss).
Many of these are as much fairer than the Malays as the Semang are darker.
If this is so, it is clear that the parallel between Semang and Arunta totemism is considerably closer than at first appears.
Among the Semang people, their totemic belief and custom do not carry with them a superstructure of society.
To these significant characteristics has to be added the special birth custom and belief of the Semang pygmies.
All possess the bow and arrow, though only the Semang and Aeta use poison.
The Sakai or Senoi are jungle folk, some of whom have mixed with Semang and other peoples.
A scanty garment of bark cloth was formerly worn, and, like the Semang, they make fringed girdles from a black thread-like fungus.
The Semang of Perak is somewhat less rude, and speaks a different dialect.
The parallel between Semang and Arunta, therefore, helps us in two ways.