INDEX 



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Nankauri — continue J 



Dress anJ ornaments, 75, 81, 86, 87 

 ...« Canoe, 79 

 Masts, 79 

 Sails, 79 

 Decoration, 79 

 Feeding domestic animals, 79 

 The house, canoes, etc., 85 

 Custom of adoption, 84 



Exhumation, 82 

 Account of exhumation ceremonies, 82, 



83 

 Offerings for the dead, 84 

 Piracy in the Nicohars, 91-94 

 ^-' British punitive expedition, 93 

 Narcotics, N., 248 

 -Narkondam, A., 10, 169, 174 

 Natives. i>ee under names of islands — 

 " The Andamanese," " The Nico- 

 barese," " The Aborigines of the 

 Nicobar Islands" 

 Navigation in the Tropics, 29 



Chinese, 138 

 Nests, edible birds'. A., 29 



Sunbirds' (Arachnec/ithici), 133 

 Swifts', N., 126, 127 

 Ngong, N,, 229 



Nicknames, K.N., 59. See "Names" 

 Nicobarese, the 



Evolution, 221-225 



Native legends of origin, 229 



Appearance, 225-227 



Custom of flattening the occiput, 226 

 Measurements of some Great Nicobar- 

 ese, 356, 357 

 Measurements of some Kar Nicobar- 

 ese, 355 

 Character, 227, 228 

 Results of education. 89 

 Language, 228, 229 



Comparison of s(jme Nicobarese and 



Shom Pen words, 155 

 Nicobarese linguists, 55, 58, 75, 112 

 Social state, 61, 242 

 Headmen, 241 

 Position of women, 242 

 Children, 242 

 Courtship, 238-240 

 Marriage, 235-237 

 Polygamy, 238 

 Divorce, 237 

 Property, 240 



Method of guarding, 241 

 Takoia (Kar Nicobar), 241 

 Diseases, 235 

 Medicine, 235 



System of punishment.^, 230, 238, 241 

 Superstitious beliefs, 231-234 

 Talismans, 231 

 Henta, T], 85 

 Hentd-koif 77 



Nicobarese, the — contimud 



Superstitious beliefs, Kareau^ 85-86 



Tamituanas^ 232 



Meiiluanas, 116, 232, 233 

 Cleanliness, 248 

 Dress and ornaments, 229, 249 



Body painting, 249 



Td-chokla, 49, 229, 249 



iVgono, 229 

 Coiffure, 249, 250 

 Betel chewing, 49, 248 



Quids, 248 

 Use of tobacco, 248 

 Stimulants, 248 



Coconut toddy, 247 

 Narcotics, 248 

 Beverages, 247 

 Native luxuries, 227 

 Food, 246 



Pandanus fruit, 246, 252 

 Mode of preparing, 247 

 " Town halls," 240 

 Amusements 



Canoe processions, 251 



Pig processions, 251 



Wrestling, 251 

 Musical instruments, 87, 250 

 The Nicobarese dance-music, 87 

 Domestic animals, 243 

 Fishing, 245, 246 



Traps, 245 



Weirs, 246 

 Weapons, 243-245 

 Tools, 243, 245 

 P'oot brush, 247 

 Terms of salutation, 228 

 Custom when travelling, 228 

 Mourning custom, 250 

 Arts, 251 



Appreciation of anatomical detail, 85 

 Industries, 251, 252 



Metals, 251 

 Cultivations, 252 

 Monopolies, 107 

 Trade commodities, 252 



License, 252 



Inland, 252 

 Traders, 252, 253 



List of principal articles imported by, 

 for sale to the Kar Nicobarese, 

 351 

 Articles found to be in demand for 



presents and barter, 352 

 Local communication and transport, 253 

 Coconuts, 253 

 Turtle, 246 



Mode of capturing, 246 



Use of skull, 246 

 Dampier's account of the Nicobarese, 

 256, 257. See also under " Bom- 

 poka," "Chaura," "Great Nico- 



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