Khamliana, Sailo Chief (Coloured Plate) Frontispiece Lushai Weapons, Ornaments, &c 10 Lushai Men's Hair Ornaments To face 12 Zawlbuk, or Young Men's House To face 22 Plan of a Lushai's House 26 A Rest by the Way--on the Way to the Jhums. Lushais and Pois To face 32 Lushais Threshing Rice (Coloured Plate) To face 33 Zataia, Sailo Chief and Family (Coloured Plate) To face 44 Lushai Girls To face 53 Copy of a Map of the Route to Mi-thi-khua, drawn by a Lushai 63 Khwatlang Posts Erected to Commemorate the Slaying of Mithans at a Feast To face 65 Chief's House showing "She lu Pun," the Posts Supporting the Skulls of Mithan Killed at One of the Feasts To face 90 Cane Suspension Bridge To face 110 Fanai To face 136 Memorial Stone in Champhai, Known as Mangkhaia, Lungdawr To face 140 Vuite Memorial To face 147 Rangte Grave To face 147 Aimol Nautch Party. The Youth is Holding a Rotchem To face 152 Heads of Kuki Clans To face 184 Memorial to a Man who has Performed the Ai of a Tiger 206 Memorial to a Woman who has Performed the Buh Ai 206 Lakher Chief and Family (Coloured Plate) To face 215 Lakher Baskets To face 223 Map At end of Volume INTRODUCTION This monograph was originally intended to deal only with the inhabitants of the Lushai Hills, but on my transfer to Manipur, I found so many clans living in the hill tracts of that curious little state that I suggested that the scope of the monograph might be enlarged to include all clans of the Kuki race as well.