The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook two

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offerings to the dead, feeding of skulls

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	23.6.1936-6.1937

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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After the death the dead man's family give him rice (as often as he had taken it a day) on the grave, - until they put the skull into the stone cist. After that, they give him food for three years and after that only when they observe the Oling-pu ceremony. This (67) is held twice a year, when they hold the Pong-long-pong-phu genna (once a year), the third ceremony is Onie phu.

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