The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf Naga diary on his return to Nagaland, 1970

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feast to initiate the rice harvest

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	12.8.1970-9.9.1970

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In front of one of the morungs are two crossed posts with the fresh head of a buffalo and a cow or bull. Three days ago there was a festival to initiate the rice-harvest and a buffalo was sacrificed. The village-priest himself killed the animal with a spear.

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It is maddening to think that I was then already in Laisong without knowing about it. Everybody had (43) said that during the rains there are no feasts or rituals.

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