The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook ten

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rituals at bringing in of head

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	24.2.1937-11.4.1937

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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(62) Punkhung 5/3/1937

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When the head was brought in, the baskets, in which it was carried, were laid down in the village doorway. Then four old men threw eggs on the baskets. They were the oldest men of the following clans: Wang-shim-yen, Long-pong-shu, Ou-wek-shim and Ou-wang-bu-shu. In doing this they said: [konyak]. "Your mother, your sons, call! More, more, a whole crowd, may come".

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