Rice: for details of cultivation see Jhum.
Methods of sowing, [xxix];
of storing, [23];
of husking, [35];
of cooking, [78];
staple crop, [45];
food, [74];
interest on loans, [45];
varieties of, [56];
cutting of, after Tuku prohibited, [130];
collected by Puthi at ceremonies, [122], [129];
offered to Potsos, [114];
to Rangsis, [125], [126];
offered to souls of dead enemies, [107];
to male dead, [159]
bin, offering of pork placed in, [131];
first rice placed in, [54]
blades of, from granary offered to Potsos, [131]
boiled, in ceremonies, [47], [48], [51], [54], [108], [109], [132], [135];
hung over grave of man, [158]
husked, collected by Puthi in Tuku (kichan), [129]
pounding, in Tsirotsoala, [140];
at stone-dragging, [141]
seed, priority of payment of debt of, [45];
sprinkled in Thruven, [47];
six grains sown in Thruven, [48];
reaped at Mshe etak, [53]
uncooked, export of, forbidden between Oyantsoa and Tuku, [125]
unhusked, collected by Puthi at ceremonies, [49], [129];
laid before Rangsis, [125].
See also Thruven, Mshe etak and Reaping ceremonies
Right, males sit on, [34];
bridegroom’s place on, [150], [151], [154];
husband’s garment on, [152];
associated with number ten, [47], [49], [128]
Ritsenshandre, kindred, [92]
Rivers, Professor, suggested relationship table, [93]
Roller, Indian, not eaten except by old people, [76]
Rongorongyi, month, [226]
Roof, of house, making of, [30]–34;
decoration of Stone-dragger’s and Puthis’, [34];
omen “chunga” hidden in, [109];
hole cut in, at death, [157]
of champo, making of, dance on, [27]
of field-house, four blades of grass from, burnt in Liritang ceremony, [157]
Rüho, warrior’s ornament, [14]
Rükhusü (enemy-frightening-cloth), [v], [10]
Sachema, [xxxi]