192, The ‘ Kols” of Chota-Nagpore. 
harvested, the sacrifice is offered and the feast takes place on the 
Pahan’s threshing floor. 
Dalikattari: every second year a fowl, every third year a ram, 
every fourth year a buffalo. ‘To provide what is required for this feast, 
the Pahan holds the Dalikattaree land. 
I have already alluded to the division of the Moondahs and their 
cognates into “ Keelles’” or clans. Many of the Oraon clans and 
some of the Moondah in Chota-Nagpore are called aiter animals, and 
they must not kill or eat what they are named after. 
Thus the Moondah “ Enidhi” and the Oraon “ Minjrar’ or Eel 
tribe will not kill or eat that fish. The Hawk, Crow, Heron tribes 
will not kill or eat those birds. Livingstone, quoted in Latham,* tells 
us that the sub-tribes of the Bitshaunas (or Bechuanas) are similarly 
named after certain animals, and a tribe never eats the animal from 
which it is named, using the term, ‘‘7/a,”’ hate or dread, in reference 
to killing it. 
The above curious coincidence tempts me to give a few more details 
regarding the Oraon clans. 
The ‘“ Tirki’—have an objection to animals whose eyes are not 
yet open, and their own offspring are never shewn till they are wide 
awake. 
The “ Ekkar” 
The ‘ Katchoor’’—object to water in which an elephant has been 
bathed. 
The ‘‘ Amdiar’’—will not eat the foam of the river. 
The ‘ Kujrar’’—will not eat the oil of the Kujri tree, or sit in its 
will not touch the head of a tortoise. 
shade. 
The ‘ Tiga’—will not eat the monkey. 
The Ho chiefs could give me no signification for the names in 
which their families rejoice. The following are the most aristocratic, 
the Boorioolli, the Poorthi, Sincoi, Baipoi, Soondee, Bandri. 
I do not know of any people who are more careful in regard to the 
disposal of their dead than are the tribes of whom I am treating, 
especially the Singbhoom Kols and best classes of the Moondahs. 
On the death of a Ho or Moondah, a very substantial coffin is 
constructed and placed on faggots of firewood. The body, carefully 
* Latham’s Ethnology, Vol. Il. p. 160. 
