basket. Finally, the Pawang removed the sarongs which covered each basket and
deposited them on the Rice-child’s pillow, and sticking the “pĕnuweis” into her
hair, fumigated the entire row of baskets and the Rice-child, and covered them
over with the long white cloth, after which the wife of the master of the house
was told to observe certain rules of taboo for three days.
PLATE 5.—RICE-SOUL BASKETS.Model, showing the baskets used at the ceremony of bringing home the rice-soul. The oval-
shaped basket on the left is that which contains the rice-soul, together with the egg, iron nail,
and candle-nut, etc., used as charms to keep away evil spirits from the rice-soul or “rice-child.”Page 244.The following were the taboos imposed upon her:—
- Money, rice, salt, oil, tame animals, etc., were forbidden to leave the
house, though they might enter it without ill consequences. - Perfect quiet must be observed, as in the case of a new-born child.
- Hair might not be cut.
- The reapers, till the end of the reaping, were forbidden to let their