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INDEX

" Wlienoh," a chief, 126
Witchcraft, 109 ; Vuite, 145
Widowers and widows, 52-3, 163
Windows, token of householder's

rank, 27, 186
Women, barrenness, 70, 76; Thado,

202

Chastity, 53; Vuite, 144
Confinement, 2, 70, 81-2; Eanai,
138-9; Lakher, 223; Ronte and
Tarau, 174; Old Kuki, 160;
Ngente, 133
Dress, 12, 31; Lakher, 215 ; Vuite,

144 ; Old Kuki, 152, 186
Occupations, 17-18
Ornaments, 14, 143
Possessed by spirits, 110 et ftey.
Tobacco smoking, 12, 31
Woodthorpe, Colonel, xviii
Worship, Ancestor, 65, 71, 89, 201
Natural forces, 65
Snakes, 106-8
Spirits, 65 et seq.
Walai, the lizard, 184

YANGMAL, the earth-worm, 184
Yau, a Purum. Festival, 172

ZADENO, a branch of Thangur clan,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 42, 125, 126, 140;- 6'
Zadenga, Thangur chief, 125
Zahao tribe, 136, 139
Zakachhunga, Old Kuki villagjief Officer,

Zanghaki, courted by Labuanga, 69
Zankhuan, four days' feast, 89
Zawl, hypnotised state, 110-11
Zawlbuk, xx, 18, 21, 22, 103, 168

Chiru, Kom, Thikup, 151

Not built by the Ralte, 140

Nor by Rangte, 146

Old Kuki substitutes, 152, 168, 186

Bonte, 173

Vuite substitute, 143

Not built by Thados, 193
Zatea, an Old Kuki man, 187
Zawlnei, a hypnotic medium, 110-11
Zawlthlia, aThangchhuah, 98-9
Zawngte, a non-Lushei clan, 135
Ziki, a girl, 66, 68
Zinhawn sacrifice, 77, 132
Zin-thiang sacrifice, 70, 130, 132
Zo, Chin name for Lakher or Mara

clan, 215

Zomi, a Thado female spectre, 201
Zong-pam, a branch of Chuaongo

clan, 126
Zote clan, 188

Zu, a fermented drink made from
rice, 36

Method of distilling, 37

Use in Sacrifices, 73, 78, 83, 87, 91,
.,,„ 138

ei, the big rat, 94

Old Kuki village officer^

1 feast day, 88
i, fourth-day, 87

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