ON THE SANTHALS 



FIGURE 6 shows the anklet for a young girl as worn 

 upon the foot. This appears more like whitish bronze ; 

 it is 4| by 3 inches, weighs llf ounces and the opening 

 for the foot is 2| by If inches ; it is of the same shape, 

 and with almost the same ornamentation as the larger one, 

 and the same characters as to proportions and design. The 

 patterns for this ornament seem to have been few. 



The present specimens, as are all before and afterward 

 alluded to, are of bell-metal ; no Santhal woman could do 

 without these weights on her limbs ; if she could not have 



FIG. 6. 



FOOT OF CHILD, SHOWING THE POSITION OF THE TWO ORNAMENTS. 



them of silver, she would have them of brass ; they de- 

 light to clink them together in their barbaric dances. 

 These anklets, though usually slipped on without difficulty 

 over the heels of the young girl, where they remain till 

 she outgrows them, are sometimes forced on with great 

 violence by the native makers, who place at first moistened 

 leather over the heel and instep to prevent excoriation ; 

 as the weight on each foot, with the article next described, 

 may be four pounds, it happens not unfrequently that the 

 hard heavy metal cuts into the skin, causing great pain ; 



