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to which a small bell is attached below (see figure). It was highly 
esteemed by the owner, a bali-karaya or itinerant devil-dancer, 
who goes about to houses to exorcise evil spirits and incidentally to 
cure diseases. The story was that it had been awarded as a Sannas 
to the great-great-grandfather of the present holder. The length 
Ivory-handled Rattle and Bell. 
of the ivory shaft above the rattle is about 2J inches ; the part below 
the rattle is upwards of 3 inches. 
To the same category of similia similibus must be reckoned a 
very finely modelled silver outrigger boat said to have been vowed 
to Sinegama Dewale, near Hikkaduwa, about thirty-five years ago. 
