English: The women of the Kutia-kondh tribe have special tattoos on their face and body parts as an identifying mark in their afterlife. It also avoided stealing of tribes by rival tribesman note some of the historians. The Kondhs have had major run-in and bloody conflicts on account of encroachment of land, culture, identity and religion. The British geologists named the mineral rich base rock as Khondalite, as a respect to the Khond tribes who inhabit the region. And it is this rich deposit of mineral and forest that has led to bloody conflicts as private enterprise wants control over their region.