A youth of the Pachana family must marry a girl of the Tlangsha family. A youth of the Tlangsha family must marry a girl of the Thimasha family. A youth of the Thimasha family must marry a girl of the Khulpu-in family. A youth of the Khulpu-in family must marry a girl of the Pachana family. In both clans the young men sleep in any house, except their parents', in which there are unmarried girls. The Ronte say that formerly they built zawlbuks like the Lushais. The price of a Tarau girl is a gong or Rs. 30/-, or five years service in the girl's father's house. The Ronte maiden's price is two gongs, and her proper husband is her maternal first cousin. In both clans a fowl has to be killed by the khulpu at the time of the marriage, and the Ronte tie some of its feathers round the necks of the couple. Should a Tarau maiden be led astray both parties are fined a pot of rice-beer, which the villagers share, and the seducer pays the girl's father one pig. The child, when old enough to leave the mother, becomes the property of the father. A Ronte mother must not leave her house till five days after the birth of a daughter and seven after that of a son. On the day of the birth there is a feast, and on the fifth or seventh day, according to the sex of the child, a fowl is killed by the khulpu, and the child's hair is cut, its ears pierced, and its name decided on, the choice being made from the names of its forefathers. The house is purified by being sprinkled with zu by the khulpu. Among the Tarau, the period during which the mother may not leave her house is prolonged to ten days, at the expiry of which the khulpu kills a cock for male child and a hen for girl, and then purifies the house.