NAGA CUSTOMS.;-Owing to head-hunting troubles in 1923 it became necessary for Mr. J. H. Hutton to make two tours to parts of the Naga Hills not hitherto visited by white men. One journey was made in April, the second in October. Mr. Hutton has published a diary of the two tours as No. 1, vol. 11, of the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Many types of implements, utensils, and weapons entirely new to the author were recorded, also new data relating to the burial and head customs, forms of tatoo, etc., as well as much information supplementary to that noted by the authors of the various monographs on the Naga tribes published by the Assam Government. In connexion with the Yungya custom of disposing of the dead in trees, the head being afterwards removed, the sacred tree in question is the Ficus, for which some veneration is consistently shown among the Nagas. Among the Wa of Burma and the Dusun of Borneo it is the head tree. The Mafulu of New Guinea use it much as the Yungya, and the Papuan tribes reverenced it. Women in southern India who desire children pay reverence to it, and the Akikuyu of East Africa regard it as the abode of the souls of the dead. It is, therefore, suggested that the beliefs about, and veneration for, the fig tree may be a negroid cult spread all over the Indian Ocean which has grown up into Hinduism from below. Similarly, a negroid belief may survive in the custom of hanging the combs of bees and wasps in the entrance of houses, a custom witnessed everywhere on the first tour. A similar custom is recorded in the Andaman Islands and in the Malay Peninsula. Its occurrence in the Andaman Islands certainly suggests a negrito origin.