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those deities whose wrath they desire to avert. Hence they have 
adopted the expedient of offering symbolical representations of more 
costly gifts. These symbols, in their rudest form, are made of clay. 
It is only in towns that such brass castings as those I exhibit are 
made and used, and these were manufactured for me by a brass- 
founder of Parulia, in the district of Manbhum in Bengal. 
I take the opportunity of exhibiting some other objects of metal- 
work from India. Among these an anklet which, though formed of 
intricate movable coils, appears to have been cast in one piece. 
This anklet is of considerable weight, the object of which is said 
to be, that the wearer of one would not be able to wander far from 
her home, and would thus be less likely to get into mischief than 
if she were not so hampered. 
