Caption:1. Hole drilled in the mud floor of the house with an old dao, twirled between the hands.

Caption:2. Slender bamboo tube, split and splayed out at the top and closed by a node near the lower end, set upright in the hole. A green banana-leaf, rolled up to form a funnel, is fixed in the splayed-out end of the tube. The metal (?lead and tin) having been melted in a pot over the hearth fire, is lifted in the pot between banana-leaf pads and is poured through the funnel into the tube, where it bubbles for some time while gasses of steam escape, and is then left to cool.

Caption:3. Green banana-leaf funnel, showing the terminal whorl fixed with a bamboo splinter. After the passage of the molten metal the leaf showed hardly any trace of scorching.

Caption:4. The metal bar skaken out of the mould.

Caption:5. The completed penannular armlet as worn by Lhota women.