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Title: The Kacháris
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Endle, Sidney, 1840?-1907 Gurdon, Philip Richard Thornhagh, 1863-
Subjects: Kacháris
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ted the girl accordingly, and the girl told thelad. One day he mixed ashes and oil in a vessel, and procured APPENDIX II 121 a yaks tail, and, when night was come, he lay down andpretended to be fast asleep. Presently the swan crept out, andfeeling his hands, feet, and body with her beak, was satisfiedthat he slept. Then slowly taking off her swan skin, shebecame absorbed in the worship of her countrys gods. Andthe lad seeing his opportunity, grasped the swan plumage andthrust it into the hearth, so that it was singed, and the smell ofthe feathers filled the place. And the maiden, smelling theburning feathers, cried, What have you done to me ? Whathave you done to me ? So saying, she fell down in a faint andseemed as one dead. But the lad, taking his vessel of oil,anointed her with it, and fanned her gently with the yaks tail,till she came to. And so they married, and begat many sonsand daughters, and lived happily ever after. And thats all! MAP SHOWING AREA OCCUPIED BY THE BODO RACES
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G.Bartliolam^w: INDEX INDEX Adoption, 30 Agglutinative verb, 78 A horn, domination over Chutiyas, etc., 6Ahom, marriage rites among Morans, 89Altar, domestic, 42Ancestors, worship of, 34Animism, 33Areca nut (name of a clan), 26 B Bamboo groves (as totems), 26Banhbaroi (bamboo-grove clan), 26Baras (statistics of), 5Bargaya clan, 93 Basumati-aroi clan (among Baras), 25Bathan brai (household god), 35Bathan (euphorbia), as a god, 36Beggars (as a clan), 25Bhima (traditional ancestor of Ka-charis in Kachar), 7Bibizia-aroi (the beggars clan), 25Bihar (traditional ancestor of Chuti-yas), 90Bihu festival, 34, 49Bing-bing-aroi (the musician clan), 26Birth ceremonies, 41Bodo place-names, 4Brahmaroi (the priestly clan), 26Brahmins, satire on, 63Bride price, 31, 44 among Chutiyas, 95 among Morans, 89Burial, 46 among Chutiyas, 96 among Meches, 87 among Morans, 89 among Rabhas, 85Burial mounds, 89Burmese origin of Morans, 88 Capture, marriage by, 43 among Morans, 89Castor-oil plant, 20Cattle taking

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