INDEX

For words not explained, but having Roman numerals set against them,
see G-LOSSABY.

ABORTION, 2; Thado. 200; Vuite,

144

Adoption, 48, 54, 200
Agriculture, 27, 28, 32, 139. See

under Jhum
Ai, xix, 78 et seq. ; Rangte, 147;

Thado, 205, 207
Aichhana, a Thado, 142
Aijal (Ai-zawl), 4, 5, 7, 12, 102, 108,

131, 139, 149, 151, 185
Aijal-Champhai road, 108,
AijUl-Falam road, 62
Aijal-Lungleh road, 4
Aimol, Old Kuki clan, xv, xix, 8, 64,

89, 149 et seq., 160-1, 169 et seq.
Ai-mual village, 151
Ai-zawl, 77, 78
Allan, B. 0., xviii

A-ma-pi, a Lakher marriage price, 219
Amber, 215

Ambush, and pitfalls, 60 ; Vuite, 144
Anal, Old Kuki clan, 149 et seq., 161,

165, 167, 169, 171
Ancestor-worship, 65, 71, 89, 201
An-hmu, Lakher equivalent of

Uihring sacrifice, 223
Animals, domestic, 32
Anthropological Institute, The, 2
Aohmun, branch of Chuaongo clan,

126

Arem, a Chiru festival, 168
Ar-kang-tha, a Thado birth sacrifice,

203

Arke-ziak, Lushei head-dress, 11
Ar-Khal sacrifice, 72, 73
Arracan, 7. 67
Arte-hring-ban (or khaw-hring-tir)

sacrifice, 81

Arte-luilam sacrifice, 81
Arte-pum-phelna sacrifice, 81

Asiatic Dissertations, xix, 108
Awk, legend of the, 92, 183
Awk-pa, Kom legend, 183
Aw-rua-baw-na, a Lakher marriage
price, 218-19

BAILCHI, branch of Hualbang clan, 126
Banerji, j&zfat Nithor Nath, 176, 182,

184

Barak (Tualruang) river, 109
Barkhul, 4

Basilisk, myth of, 105
Basket work, 28, 29
Bawl, a Lakher sacrifice, 222
Bawl-pui sacrifice, 74, 223
Bawlte village, 136
Bear, superstition about the, 102
Beh-dieng-khlam, a Synteng (Khasi)

custom, 167

Bengalis, king of the, 96
Bengkhawia, tale of, 79
Benglama, equivalent of Lushai

Chhura, 207 et seq.
Bete clan, 148
Betlu village, 131
Bhuban caves, the, 187, 188
Biate (Beteh) tribe, 6, 49, 108, 110,

185, 187-8
Biate tribe, 136
Birds entering houses, superstition,

102

Birth. See under Child
Blacksmiths, 17, 30, 153
Blackwood, Captain, 5
Blue Mountain, the, 213, 214
Boar, devil possessed, 11*2
Sacrificed, 64
Eanai, 139

Khelte and Siakeng, 141
Vuite, 144

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