ABSTRACT
THE result at which we have arrived in the previous chapter is that the masks are purely magical things, and that the ornamental paintings, feathers, etc., with which they are provided, are not real decorations but charms, according to magical ideas which are deeply reoted in the Indian mind. Exactly the same holds true of the ornamentation of other religious instruments, drums, rattle-gourds, flutes, bull-roarers, and dancing-staffs.
