The Khadals at their marriages worship their totem animal or tree, and offer to it flowers, sandalwood, vermilion, uncooked rice, and the new clothes and ornaments intended for the bride, which she may not wear until this ceremony has been performed.

Again, the sacrament of the Meher or marriage cakes is sometimes connected with the clan totem in India.

These cakes are cooked and eaten sacramentally by all the members of the family and their relatives, the bride and bridegroom commencing first.

Among the Kols the relatives to whom these cakes are distributed cannot intermarry, and this indicates that the eating of them was formerly a sacrament of the exogamous clan.

The association of the totem with the marriage cakes is sometimes clearly shown.