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GOOJUR SIRDARS. and are tied together at the neck of the water vase below, which is about half filled with water; the smoke is drawn through the snake, and the air being exhausted, the smoke descends through the largest reed, which supports the top on which is the prepared tobacco, through the water, and is thus inhaled pure. The snake is of tough pewter wire, curled, in rings, then covered with thin birch bark till air tight, round which are wound strips of coloured muslin, till the whole is smooth and neat, as shown in the Plate.

Here again we see one of the embroidered purdaha, or screens, before alluded to, and the patterns of the present, both in the borders and body of the screen, are remarkably effective; but of what material the whole is made no information is given.