Note 39 — Chapter VI · Magic Rites as affecting the Life of Man
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The youth whose teeth I saw filed must have been quite fifteen or sixteen years of age, and had not long before undergone the rite of circumcision. When I arrived I found the house newly swept and clean, and all the accessories of the ceremony already prepared. These latter consisted of a round tray (dulang) containing the usual bowl of rice-paste (tĕpong tawar), with the brush of leaves,39 three cups (containing different sorts of rice), an egg,40 three rings of precious metals (gold, silver, and amalgam), a couple of limes, and two small files (to which a small tooth-saw and two small whetstones should be added).41