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trivances for extracting oil and husking grain, leaf plates and 
cups, ladles, baskets, bins, pipes, mats, brooms and a few odd 
things. Fire drill is now seldom used and has been replaced 
by the chakmak (steel and flint). Their favourite mode of 
This is done in the night. The wild animals come dancing 
drawn by the light and the jingling noise made with the rings. 
A second man armed with a bamboo strikes the animal as 
they approach the Dhatti. Gonds have many kinds of traps 
and snares, and use also bows and arrows, and lances and 
spears for hunting. They surround a tiger and spear him, 
Their food is simple. In the wilder tracts they live in roots 
and fruits and flesh of wild animals. Wild mice are a delicacy 
to them, and sometimes a penalty for tribal offences is levied 
in the form of so many mice to be provided by the offender for 
atribalfeast. The principal amusement of Gonds is the dances 
in which both males and females take part. They have a 
whole night and again be ready to do so if called on. A mar- 
riage ceremony is the greatest occasion for it. 
The present internal structure of the tribe shows that 
Gonds have contributed a number of occupational groups, 
iy as the Agarias or iron workers, the Gowaris or graziers 
endogamous divisions and are on the way to complete separa 
tion like the occupational groups. : 
The Gond rules of exogamy vary in different parts and in 
one respect resemble the system found in Australia, by which 
the whole tribe is split into two or four divisions and every ma” 
in one or two of them must marry a woman in the other one or 
tween brothers and sisters and then between parents and child- 
ten by the arrangement of these main divisions. The Gond 
sleep. The Oraons also have a similar house and we learn 
from Professor Haddon that Papuans also possess an analo- 

