text: Male and female members of family share their labour in all sorts of activities. However, a few cases are  exceptions; e.g. cooking meals, which is mostly considered the responsibility of women. But when women are very busy, men take the responsibility of cooking as well. Similarly, though ploughing the field is generally considered the work of men, unmarried girls are also found involved in it to support men in their work.
  Attire and ornaments
  Women
  Rai women used to weave homespun cloth from the khadi, cotton, wool and allo nettle plant.
  Men
  Rai men wear Wachinari Mala (Dzi bead), Potlung (Puwalo Mala) garland, and animal tooth necklaces. Male dress comprises headgear (feta; pagari; sayabung); Betebung shirt (dawm; lockchham); pant (suruwal; langsup); sleeveless coat made of stinging nettle plant fiber (chhakchha; fenga); waistband (narimokty); (patuki, chakchhinma), a large knife (khukuri, dabhay).
  Religion
  Rai have been following Kirat religion since the ancient times. Kirat religion is based on animistic nature and ancestor worship. Rai do not believe in heaven or hell. There is no religious hierarchy.  Kirati Rai engages Nakchong, Mangpa, Bijuwa, Nakso their tribal shamans in their religious rites. During the course of their recent history the Rai has increasingly borrowed elements from the major religions they have had contact with from Lamaist Buddhism or Nepalese Hinduism without however renouncing their own tribal traditions. As per Nepali Census of 2011 AD, roughly one third of Rai people follow Hinduism(30 %), two third follow Kirat Mundhum Dharma(65 %), while 5 % are Christians.
  Suptulung: Places of sacred worship