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IMAGE OF THE GODDESS KALI IN THE KHATMANDU MARKET-PLACE 



A procession of women to honor this image is a feature of the ten-day festival known 

 as the Durga Puja. While the men are engaged in military maneuvers, the women march 

 in what might be mistaken for a visiting firemen's parade to the square, headed by a repre- 

 sentative from the royal household, walking under a huge red umbrella. The costumes are 

 bizarre, vivid in coloring, tinsel-bedecked, and the women's faces are liberally daubed with 

 vermilion, 



