The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary five

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Oulingbu ceremony ; cutting up the animals

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	1.4.1937-26.6.1937
note:	translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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Pigs and cattle are slaughtered today and everyone is busy cutting them up and dividing them. At every Oulingbu a man gives parts of the slaughtered animals (121) to his married sisters. In return he receives a laya when she dies and a field when one of her sons dies, whether before or after his mother's death. The night is clear but there is lightning in the distance.

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