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CONSUL LAYARD has given a remarkable instance of this form of fetishism, practised by the Cingalese, near Jaffna, as illustrating the paper read by Mr. Walhouse at the Anthropological Institute, April 8, 1879. When passing through the Betsileo forest country many years ago we came frequently on somewhat analogous monuments.
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O., S. Rag-Bushes. Nature 20, 602–603 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020602e0
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