Note 220 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature (continued 2)

Pounding of the rice from the three baskets.—When the rice had been sufficiently dried, it was once more collected in the baskets, and carried back to the house to be pounded.220 That operation took place the same evening, when the rice was pounded and winnowed221 in the ordinary way, the only noteworthy addition being the tying of bunches of the grass called sambau dara to the upper ends of the long wooden pestles which the Malays use for the pounding operation.