The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters

caption:

Chang burial

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notes

keywords:

paushipo

ethnicgroup:

Chang

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	16:34

text:

Chang.

text:

Paushipo - buries corpses - marks out the grave - measures the coffin - dispose of corpse of a woman who has died in childbirth or of a pregnant dead woman - bury a tiger - corpse of a man who falls from a tree. Every village has at least one and sometimes 2 - one of the oldest men in the village - as ordered by the village.

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