Baby language, [225]
Bachelors sleep in morung, [24];
also see Unmarried.
house, see Morung and Champo.
Baldrick (ritsen), [13]
Balfour, Dr. H., “Some Types of Native Hoes, Naga Hills,” [49 n. 1]
Bamboo, uses of:
cross-bow, shields, [18];
in building, [23], [26], [30]–36;
utensils, [35], [36];
loom, [38];
bellows, [42];
tools, [47];
basket-work, [43];
pipes, [81];
musical instruments, [85];
erections at Lanvung, [52];
funeral ——, [158], [159];
fishing weirs, [72];
traps and rods, [73];
mock spears, [123];
sacrificial knife, [52];
needle (otyam), [40];
for ear-piercing, [146];
as lancet, [80], [81];
pickle (dhrüchong), [78];
for tempering daos, [42];
“heads” hung on, [28], [108];
burnt to scare animals, [52];
twig in ceremonies, [47], [50];
association of ticho —— and Thangwe Eni clan, [90]
Bamboo rat, not eaten by ratsen, [165];
story regarding, [183]
Bark of tree used as rope, [32];
for nets, [43];
in medicines, [79]–81
Barter, [44]
Basket, [35];
disposal of, after Rangsikan ceremony, [51];
hung over graves, [158]
carrying, in Epuetha ceremony, [132], [133];
in Soul-calling ceremony, [134], [136];
full of rubbish abandoned as cure for fever, [136];
given to bride by bridegroom, [148];
for grain (otyak), [56];
making: men’s work, prohibited to women, materials, and patterns used in, [43]