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and that the heads were constantly heing 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 jMan with eak-kings 



beads is, of course, quite inadequate for the population, and many 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 



