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A. A tree or post on which is hung a packet of all sorts of eatables wrapped up in leaves.
B. A branch of the Nongleisang tree planted in the ground.
C. Basket of paddy.
D. Basket of rice.
S. Seng-gam, two upright reeds supporting a third from which depends a black cloth containing twenty pice (copper coins), the whole being covered by a white cloth.
E. A winnowing fan, on F, a mat.
G. Three cloths laid on the ground, and on them a bunch of plantains, covered by three more cloths; said to represent the corpse.
H—H. Pan and betel nut.
K—K. Twelve kegam, cups full of rice with a lime on the top of each.
L—L. Twelve chapu, earthen pots full of rice with a lime on the top of each.
M. A pot of water.
N. Maiba's seat.
O. Lei-hul, flowers offered to Senamahi, household god.
the sister of the husband brings some flowers and a little rice. Five discs of local salt are hung up along the front of the verandah, and after the ceremony these are thrown away outside the village, where cows are likely to eat them; this is to remove bad luck, and prevent the recurrence of such a catastrophe. The Maiba now takes his seat behind the water pot, in which, while muttering charms, he moistens a bunch of leaves. The floor of
