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and that the beads were constantly being dropped and lost in the fields. 

 After floods the loosened soil might expose to sight some of the beads 

 which had thus been dropped or thrown away. The supply of these blue 



432. A JA-LUO MAX WITH EAB-RINl 



beads is, of course, quite inadequate for the population, and ninny are 

 making up for the scarcity now by using the ordinary blue beads of 

 commerce. 



The Ja-luo men often wear an armlet of threaded cylindrical wooden 



