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to Pansat; ritual posts and effigy marking good rice crop |
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3rd. To Pansat. - About 10 miles - a bridle path of sorts to river beyond Laiyum and then a steepish climb up to Pansat - a very rich village. On the way up we passed some big erect stones with buffalo-headed tally posts alongside of them and the heads of a couple of slaughtered buffalo, and a wooden effigy of a man thrown aside in the grass. They said it marked the place of a ceremony done on account of a very successful rice crop, and admitted that the wooden figure of a man had been killed as a substitute for a flesh and blood one. |
