pan. A leaf which is chewed with betel nut and lime.
panji. A bamboo spike stuck in the ground to impale enemies or game. [[233]]
[1] Opposite each month I have given the traditional derivation of the name. The correspondence with the English months is only approximate, of course. [↑]
[2] Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, by Major John Butler, p. 189. [↑]
[3] As the keeping of paddy in large corn-baskets is an Angami custom, and not followed by the Lhotas, the account given to Major Butler is clearly inaccurate, and I agree with Mr. Mills that it is probably a sheer invention of the same nature as the Semas and Aos are in the habit of making with regard to the hostile tribes to the east of them.—J. H. H. [↑]
INDEX
Adoption, rules of, [99], [100];
complicates exogamous system (Aos), [xxx].