PLATE XXVIII.
A B A N S E E ,
A flute mad&i'of the> bamboo,, and iS >as often .fdayedion’ through
the nose as the mouth; it is used in most of the Eastern;:'ceremonies,
and at the feastofNila-Popja,;when tfte bigc£ta|at that1 ceremony, run
sharp pointed iron rods through their tongues, and! through the. m a cular
part, of'the breast, the back, the arm,, the skin of the forehead^kci
and dance with stretched cords .passed through, the integuments of the
sides, in the manner of sfetoflS; in .the evening*’ the Po'oja is performed
to Mahadeva, or Seib, Poojasignifies prayer or devofionii. ‘
