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 Pah an 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 Moonclah in Chota-Nagpore are called after 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, " ila" 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" — will not touch the head of a tortoise. 



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 

 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 conic is 

 constructed and placed on faggots of firewood. The body, carefully 

 * Latham's Ethnology, Vol. II. p. 160. 



