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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1895.
77 (m). Danang. Bamboo lyre, the string of which is generally made of a variety of cane, locally known as palai. In order to improve the tone of the instrument, holes are made through the under portion of the bamboo cylinder. Used at the Et-kait-ni memorial-feast and can be played only at a distance from a cemetery, and when no sick persons or mourners are present.
77a. (m). Dranang. Car Nicobar lyre. These are smaller than the last-named, and are generally made of wood.
78 (m). Iche (C. N. Hara-nang). Ear-stick ornament, usually made of a variety of cane called palai, very commonly worn by both sexes at most of the islands, after the manner of the Burmese. These objects are sometimes hollowed and filled with dammar on account of its agreeable odour, or with tobacco. The silver facet consists generally of a four-anna piece, the surface of which has been rubbed smooth on a stone. This is styled oalmat-iche, i. e., the "eye of the iche." The Car Nicobar ear-stick is usually small and neatly-made. When not in use, a plug of cloth, rolledleaf, etc., is often inserted in the perforated ear-lobe.
78 a. (m). Iche S hom-pen. A large variety of ear-stick, made of bamboo or light wood and
about 5 inches in circumference, worn by the Shom-pen.
79 (m). Toapa or Niama (C. N. Toapa). Cane tongs, used for lifting a piece of burning wood or hot iron off a fire.
80 (f). Haat. Open basket, made and used at Car Nicobar, for holding chewing and smoking materials.
81 (f). Hokchòk. Cane basket made in the Southern Group for containing betel, lime,
and chavica leaves. As the workmanship excels anything of the kind attempted in the Central Group, the natives of the latter purchase them for use on their feast days, in preference to their own spathe boxes (vide No. 54).
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83 (f). Chukai (C. N. Paiyah). Cane basket, used in the Central and Southern Groups for
carrying food, etc., when on a journey, or in a canoe. The larger variety is made in the Southern Group, where the natives are more skilful at cane-work.
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(m). Wan. Hanging baskets of cane, used in the Southern Group for holding pots plates, etc., and being gradually adopted in the Central Group.
(m Hentain (C. N. Kowoka). Cane basket, made and used by women for bringing &f). produce from their gardens to the village. A stick is passed through the cane or cord loop, when carrying the basket over the shoulder (vide No. 163).
85 (m Kan-shōla (C. N. Til-kön-haiyam). Basket, made sometimes of cane, but generally f). of the bark of a certain small tree, called Afu (? Maranta dichotoma); used for carrying fowls.
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86 (m. Henlòn-mòng. (Teressa, Hangia). Basket for holding small fish speared along f). the foreshore, or in shallow water.
87 (m).
Hille-ok-not. Tray-shaped cane basket, made and used in the Southern Group, for conveying a pig from one village to another. In the Central Group a cocoanut frond, and at Car Nicobar an Areca spathe, is used for the purpose.
(f). Kenshiwa-shun (C. N. Kenchang-nama). Fine cane-basket, used as a sieve when preparing shell-lime.
88 a. (f). Kenshiwa-shun Shom-pen. A somewhat similar basket, made by the Shom-pen
for sale to the coast natives.
Prickly stem-sheath of long ground rattan (Calamus sp.), used chiefly by women for rasping the kernel of the cocoanut, and Cycas Rumphii.
89 (m). Kenshoch (C. N. Kunhial kok).
