Note 126 — Chapter VI · Magic Rites as affecting the Life of Man
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The loading of the tray now recommenced, and the Pawang standing up and looking towards the south, deposited in it carefully the several portions of “cooked” offerings (the sum of the various portions making up a whole fowl). Then, after washing his hands, he added to the tray small portions of rice variously prepared and coloured (viz. parched and washed rice, and rice stained yellow (saffron), green, red, blue, and black, seven kinds in all). Next he deposited in the tray the uncooked portions, whose sum also amounted to a whole fowl, then, after a further hand-washing, the “cakes,” and finally, after a last washing, he fastened to the “suspenders”126 of the tray the small ornamental rice-bags called kĕtupat and lĕpat.127