Page:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 1.djvu/142

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NAGAS.

giving and feasting. Infidelity on the part of either husband or wife, is punished by the fine of a cow or a hog. On the occurrence of a death, they howl their lamentations, feast, and bury the corpse, placing the spear of the deceased in his grave, and his shield, with some fork-like sticks and an offering of eggs and grain on it, in order to ensure good crops.

The Rengmah Nagas are a small tribe, consisting of little more than a dozen villages.