Thaire
Thaire is rectangular in shape, open top wooden enclosure constructed locally sourced dry logs and branches. Four cowrie shell is used to keep by digging in four corner and one is in the middle, during the buying rituals before the construction of thaire, and it has 10 steps of dry wooden but in counting it is 11 steps by adding the one soil layer, and thaire sa, mangrojo, Duwmangkhlong, khungkhai, Gungsrib, Thirisi, songki and markin etc are required for the construction of thaire.
The Dimasas cremate their dead. The male relatives of the deceased make arrangements for cremation, whereas the female relatives start the preparation for what the Dimasas term as makhamgarba, i.e offering of the food. The cremation ground is called Subung Saoyam in Dijuwa, is a communal property, there is a process of ‘buying’ the ground called Ha braiba, for the purpose of the cremating the dead, and occupying space for the construction of the thaire, and the associated funerary rituals.
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