OF NORTHEASTERN BENGAL. 



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but it is all homo cheerfully for fashion's sake. With such 

 an apparatus the Santhal woman was so manacled and band- 

 cuffed thai she could do little more than carry it about ; one 



hand had to support the other, or both were rested on the 

 hips ; she walked with difficulty, and was liable to accidents 

 in the thickets from her neck-ring. Once on, they can only 

 be removed by the file, and in their wild state to be re- 

 placed by larger and heavier ones. When Christianized 

 they are glad to have them tiled oil", and then can do twice 



Clasp worn above thus anklet 



the labor of their heavily adorned heathen sisters. They 

 have been known to carry thus thirty pounds, but usually 

 about twelve. The anklets are worn below the malleolar 

 prominences, and are called banhi. 



Clasps or buckles for the leg above the anklet. Of these 

 I have two. Figure 7 is one for an adult, weighing H 

 pounds. The one for a child weighs 3J ounces, both of 

 bill metal. These are the most singular of their orna- 

 ments, and had we not the drawings of the missionaries, 

 it would be difficult to make out how they were worn. 

 Figure 6 shows how these singular ornaments are worn. 



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