The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook fourteen

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millet reaping ceremony

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	1.5.1937-3.6.1937

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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notebook 3 p.97ff

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In Dzangha-li the millet is reaped. On the day a man starts the reaping he takes a chicken to the fields and kills it there. (cf. NB. 3. p. 97ff.) This ceremony is called shi-shou-wang-bu. This day a man who has done the shi-shou-wang-bu must give nothing out of his house except to men of his clan and even then he takes at the same time some leaves from them. When he gives with the right hand he takes the leaves (which are quite useless) with the left.

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