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red and yellow both the oil-mill and the bullock that works it.62 Dekban Rámôśis rub the hridegroom's foot with red powder, and Gojarât Muhammadans, when the bride enters her husband's house for the first time, kill a goat, and mark the soles of the bride's feet with its blood. In Poona, at a wedding dinner, the place for each guest is marked with lines of red powder. 65 At a Dekhan Kunbi's wedding, when the boy is seated outside of the girl's house, Brâhmans draw red lines on the walls.68 Some Dekhan Kunbis paint gaudy pictures and stripes of olour on their houses to keep off the evil eye.67 The dome of the Tarkêśwar temple at Nasik is coloured red and white. The Komtis of Sholapur, on the fifth day after a birth, wash The cot, and paint it with red and white lines. In the Karnatak, all clothes given away as presents are rubbed with red powder. Some Belgaum Brahmans have their honses painted with alternate stripes of white and red.70 In Nagar, the pile of pots at the corners of the square, in which Gujarat Brahmaņs are married, are striped red and white.71 The Bedars, or Biadars, of Dhirwâț smear their bodies with red, white and yellow earth.72 The Gavandis of Bijapur throw red-coloured rice over the bride and bridegroom.73 The Beni-Isra'ils of Western India redden the bridegroom's hands and feet with henna.74 At Malêr marriages the bridegroom marks the bride's brow with red.75 Among the Gonds, at the Polâ festival, the bullocks and drivers are covered with red,76 and this reddening is part of the Pola festival in many parts of Western India. On the sixth day after a birth the Gonds mark the ground with vermilion.77 Red powder is perpetually thrown at Gond weddings,78 In Bengal, as in Bombay and other parts of India, on the Phålgun fullmoon, the Hindus drench each other with red water.80 The village stones, or karnkalla, of Mysore, are painted in vertical lines red and white.91 The Ganapatiâs, a seet of Hindas, mark their brows with red minium.82 Formerly in Burma, no one but the king could use vermilion. Similarly, when a Burman prince was executed, he was tied in a red velvet bay und drowned in a river.96 Red cloth is used at Chinese weddings.95 Children in China, at the festival of Middle Heaven, have their foreheads and navels marked with vermilion to keep off evil spirits.86 In the Andaman Islands, upla, or red oxide of iron, mixed with the fat of pigs or turtles, is applied to the body as an ornament or to cure disease.87 Some tribes in North Australia cover themselves with red earth. The Melville islanders, when in mourning, paint their bodies red or white.99 Hottentot women mark sacred stones and cairns with red ochre. In Madagascar, Hova women stain their nails red. The Gallas of East Africa anoint themselves with oil and red ochre.92 The Bongos of the White Nile apply red ochre to wounds as reducent and antiseptic. Red and yellow are the great colours at the Dahomey court. In South Africa, the chief's wife covers herself with oil and red ochre.98 Dr. Livingstone noticed in South Africa an idol with marks of red Ochre and white pipe clay. Some tribes in South Africa smear themselves with fat and ochre to keep out the influence of the sun by day and of cold by night. The Muhammadan women of North-West Africa stain their hands and feet red with henna. The Dakotas of 13 Op. cit. Vol. XVIII. p. 47. 63 Op. cit, Vol. XVIII. p. 421.
Information from Mr. Syed Daud, 66 Information from Mr. M. M. Kunte.
* Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XVIII. p. 304. 87 Trans. By. Lit. Soc. Vol. III. p. 219.
68 Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XVI. p. 507. * Op. cit. Vol. XX. p. 50.
TO Op. cit. Vol. XXI. p. 92. T1 Op. cit. Vol. XVII. p. 57.
19 Information from Mr. Tirmajro. 18 Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XXIII. p. 101,
14 Op. cit. Vol. XVIII. p. 517. 16 Dalton's Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, p. 278. 16 Hislop's Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces, App. I. p. iii. IT Op. cit. App. I. p. iv.
75 Op. cit. App. I. p. v. 19 March-April
# Ward's View of the Hindus, Vol. I. p. 199. #1 Rice's Mysore, Vol. I. p. 896.
* Colebrooke's Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. I. p. 199. 18 Shway Yoe's The Burman, Vol. II. p. 128.
44 Op. cit. Vol. II. p. 124. 86 Gray's China, Vol. I. p. 201.
16 Op. cit. Vol. I. p. 280. Jour. Anthrop. Trust, Vol. VII. p. 461.
35 Earl's Papuans, p. 227. Op. cit. p. 200. # Hahn's Tsuni Goam, p. 140.
1 Sibree's Madagascar, p. 210. n News' East Africa, p. 275.
* Schweinfurth's Heart of Africa, Vol. I. p. 309. Burton's Dahomey, Vol. I. p. 248.
» Dr. Livingstone's Tavels in South Africa, p. 276. * Op. cit. p. 275.
Op. cit. p. 108.
» Hay's Westers Barbary, p. 16.
