Man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected

B&W photographic print. 'A man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected. He is probably the giver of the first of the series of Feasts of Merit, culminating in the stone-dragging ceremony, and entitling him to wear the richly decorated stone-dragging cloth. In the course of the ceremony two mithan are sacrificed and the meat distributed to members of the village. The stones are erected beside a path leading to the fields so that the "fertility" which they are held to possess may be transmitted to the villagers who pass by and to their crops.'

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