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overhanging tree or from some wooden stake, are hung the cross-bow, the sword and 
the rice-bags of the fallen tribesmen, and an earthen jar is buried in the grave with 
neck exposed above the ground. For three years the kinsmen and friends go regularly 
to the grave bearing offerings of cooked meats and refilling the vase with wine. In the 
spring of the third year they assemble again at the grave, now bearing uncooked 
rice and water for the funeral urn. Pouring their offering of water and scattering the 
grain upon the grave they call to the spirit of the dead to arise, to take the food and 
prepare it, for their ministrations will be needed no more. There seems in 
these customs some definite thought of resurrection, nor is it impossible that, as in 
the resurrection of Osiris , the Egyptians saw the pledge of a life everlasting beyond 
the grave, believing that every man would live eternally if only his surviving 
friends did for his body what the gods had done for Osiris, 1 so to these simple Lisu 
the last rites of the dead herald their comrade to the life beyond, as the spring- 
time resurrection of the world releases the imprisoned spirit from the chains of death. 
Mr. Stirling, writing of the Lihsaws from Kengtung in the British Shan States, 
says : ‘ ‘ They intermarry with Chinese but never with 
Marriage Customs. 
Shans, and they celebrate the Chinese New Year. The 
same house is sometimes occupied by more than one family, but there is no set custom. 
A wife is stolen from her parents in the first instance. The pair hide in the jungle for 
a day or two and then return to the village. A feast is given and a money payment 
made to the girl’s parents proportionate to the means of the husband. Formerly 
the price of a wife was 150 rupees, but it is now very much less. Parents always 
consent to a match after the man has succeeded in abducting his bride. After the 
marriage feast and payment to the parents, the woman becomes her husband’s pro- 
perty. There is no divorce, but he can sell her if they do not agree together. ’ ’ 
Prince Henry, writing of the Eisu of Lotsolo (Salween, Lat. 26°-i5 / ), says: “A 
curious marriage custom is observed amongst them. The wedding feast over, at night- 
fall the betrothed retires with her parents into the mountains and the swain has to 
seek them ; which quest successfully achieved, the parents withdraw, and the newly 
wedded couple remain till morning upon the hill-side when they return to their homes. 
They have to repeat this ceremony for three nights before they may settle down.’ ’ 
Among the Ifisu tribes of Kuyung Kai the marriage is arranged by a middleman, 
and the bridegroom usually pays to the parents of the bride a sum varying from eight 
to ten ounces of silver (about 25s.), although this money payment is declared to be a 
matter of arrangement and not an unchanging custom. O11 the wedding day the bride 
is escorted by a maiden from her village, and by her parents, relations and friends, 
to the door of the bridegroom’s house, and in her procession comes the middleman 
bearing on his back a basket with the trousseau consisting of four or five garments 
made in her home. The party is met by the bridegroom and his friends at the door, a 
gun is fired, a bowl of wine is passed round from which all drink as a loving-cup, and 
the bride then enters the house with her party. For three days festival is kept up in 
1 “Adonis, Attis, Osiris ’’ by Dr. J. G. Frazer, bondon, 1907, page 309. 
