Note 174 — K (continued 5)

It is noted by Mr. Friend-Pereira174 that, at the ceremonial for settling the preliminaries of a Kondh marriage, a knotted string is put into the hands of the sēridāhpa gātāru (searchers for the bride), and a similar string is kept by the girl’s people. The reckoning of the date of the betrothal ceremony is kept by undoing a knot in the string every morning.