. Bulletin of the Essex Institute . h raisedrosettes, continuous and dotted lines, and various promi-nences longitudinal and transverse; the higher anteriorand posterior portions are most highly ornamented, bothabove and below, and are nearly alike; they seem to becasts, finished by hand. This is evidently for an adult,and is an inch in diameter, or three in circumference, atits smallest part, and a little thicker in the middle and atthe ends; design artistic. 110 ON TI1E SANTFIALS Figure 6 shows the anklet for a young girl as wornupon the foot. This appears more like whitish bronze ;it is 4fb
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute . h raisedrosettes, continuous and dotted lines, and various promi-nences longitudinal and transverse; the higher anteriorand posterior portions are most highly ornamented, bothabove and below, and are nearly alike; they seem to becasts, finished by hand. This is evidently for an adult,and is an inch in diameter, or three in circumference, atits smallest part, and a little thicker in the middle and atthe ends; design artistic. 110 ON TI1E SANTFIALS Figure 6 shows the anklet for a young girl as wornupon the foot. This appears more like whitish bronze ;it is 4fby 3 inches, weighs llf ounces and the openingfor the foot is 2£ by If inches; it is of the same shape,and with almost the same ornamentation as the larger one,and the same characters as to proportions and design. Thepatterns for this ornament seem to have been few. The present specimens, as are all before and afterwardalluded to, are of bell-metal; no Santhal woman could dowithout these weights on her limbs ; if she could not have. Foot of child, showing the position of the two ornamknts. them of silver, she would have them of brass ; they de-light to clink them together in their barbaric anklets, though usually slipped on without difficultyover the heels of the young girl, where they remain tillshe outgrows them, are sometimes forced on with greatviolence by the native makers, who place at first moistenedleather over the heel and instep to prevent excoriation ;as the weight on each foot, with the article next described,may be four pounds, it happens not unfrequently that thehard heavy metal cuts into the skin, causing great pain ; OF NORTHEASTERN BENGAL. Ill but it is all homo cheerfully for fashions sake. With suchan apparatus the Santhal woman was so manacled and band-cuffed thai she could do little more than carry it about ; one hand had to support the other, or both were rested on thehips ; she walked with difficulty, and was liable to accidentsin the thicket
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